LIBRARY OF CONGRESS 



012 902 365 P * 



BF 

1042- 



THEOREM 

Or Teleology of Spiritualism 




By MAY BARNARD WILTSE 



I 



Copyright, 1909 
By May Barnard Wiltse 




THEOREM 



QLifcLe ttl^tj^g v& ^pmiiraltsm 



BY 



Mnxt pnTtmsit Wxlizz 




NEW ROCKFORD, NORTH DAKOTA 
1909 



N' 



Y\Q 







EDDY COUNTY PROVOST 
New Rockford, N. D. 




LIBRARY of CONGRESS 
Two CoDies Received 

MAY 14 W09 

CLASS ai* XXc No. 
COPY 3. ' 



£ 






t&tmitixU 



CHAPTEE I. 

Science and Truth of Facts; What True Science Means. 

CHAPTER II. 
Knowledge and What It Means. Answer to Mr. Francis 
Darwin's Address, before the British Association, on Con- 
sciousness. 

CHAPTEE III. 
Letter to Mr. Shaw, Editor of the Review of Reviews 
from the author. Answer by him to the author. 

CHAPTER IV. 

Sub- conscious and W T hat It Is. 

CHAPTEE V. 

Theorem or Teleology of Spiritualism. 



AUTHOR'S INTRODUCTION 



jAttiJbjxr s 3nttixhnztzxitt 





T] 


IlliJi 



WISH to say the knowledge of this book did 
not come through electrical or magnetic in- 
vestigation, The writer had never read up 
on these subjects since she was a school girl, 
twenty five years ago. It all came to me 
after reading an article in the Delineator 
two weeks ago, "Are the Dead Alive V" these so-called 
scientific men believing the spirits of the dead are alive. 
She wrote to the Delineator denying the thought; also, to 
the Keview of Reviews. She received no reply from the 
Delineator, but she did receive quite a compliment from the 
editor of the Review of Reviews. Then, after writing these 
letters, she commenced to research for the cause of human 
magnetism and electrical power. Thanking Brittanica and 
the children's anatomy for their help, as it is only with 
God's inspiration and help that she received tkis knowledge. 
She has not used quotation signs because she has mixed 
questions and the opposite side together. The more com- 
pact print denotes what is copied from other magazines. 



AUTHOR'S INTRODUCTION 7 

What is Theorem ? A theorem is a proposition to be 
proven by a Chain of Reasoning. A theorem is some- 
thing to be proved; a problem is something to be clone. 

The writer has given a true problem of Spiritualism and 
it is for the people to prove the fact to themselves of the 
truth of what she declares. The aim of the writer is to 
bring before the people a definite, reasonable, humanly ex- 
planation of the unseen power that the human race posesses 
and that it is positively no supernatural power or devices of 
so-called spirits from God. We do not have to enter God's 
unknown kingdom for maukind to research the simple sub- 
ject treated. 

Because she has found it compulsory to condemn the 
scholastic men mentioned in this book. 

The monarch mind, the mystery of researching, the 
birth-hour gift, the truth theorem, of moulding, making, 
gathering, searching the mind of thousands will be moved 
by them. 

Yours for research, 

May Barnard Wiltse. 



SCIENCE 



^txtntt 




GIENCE is a fact or truth proven by the mind 
of man, and to have any principle as a science 
it must coincide with God, not man's compre- 
hension or understanding. Truth must be 
perfect. Science is built on self-evident 
truths. Spiritualism is not a science because 
it is built upon sand and is falling. Science perfects any 
subject. People are not careful enough in using the words 
Science and Knowledge. 

The science of God is perfect and if man reveals any 
thought of weak human nature and foolishly and sillily 
names it Science, he greatly errs, and makes an error hard to 
overcome with God's truth. 

True science is the collecting of certain truths about 
any cause, but before we name it science we should be sure 
we are right, then go ahead and follow the truth straight 
to the mark, even if the whole world turns and sneers at 



SCIENCE 9 



your knowledge. If you reveal the truth then God is truly 
on your side and if they receive not the truth from you, but 
years afterwards the truth of what you teach will be re- 
vealed to help and progress the race; and this truth revealed 
scientifically of extracting magnetic healing power from 
our people is only begun. Science used today is not the 
word or definition of it God intended for us to use it for 
these misleading definitions. It is used today by every new 
thought fanatic or quack, and each declares his to be the 
only true science to be found by mankind. There is only 
one science revealed to man today and that is, in a general 
sense, (not common sense), on knowledge; the comprehen- 
sion of understanding of truth on facts by the mind. 

In philosophy, a collection of the general principles of 
leading truths relating to any subject arranged in systematic 
order is puke science. 

Is Spiritualism, Theosophy, Christian Science and New 
Thought a Science? No, never! None of these reveal any 
truth that leads to any of God's principles of Science. 

Pure Science is built on self-evident truths, truths that 
can prove themselves to the world as acknowledged truths 
and so explain them as such. The writer can prove the 
Science of her theory or God's law of human magnetization 
of one body over another, by her own experiment and per- 
sonal observation. 

Mr. Hooker declares that "No science doth make known 
the first principle on w T hich it builds." This is positively 
true; no man or woman can ever step into God's kingdom 
and reveal the foundation principle of spiritualism or 
human magnetization any more than they can step into 



10 SCIENCE 



God's principle as to how the attractions and repulsions 
excited by frictions in certain bodies of which amber may 
be taken as a type. To the causes of these unknown forces 
—and they will remain unknown until the day of judgment 
to mankind. God in his infinite wisdom placed us here to 
find out the beginning of His plan, but we, in our human 
weakness, have "strained at a gnat (magnetic power) and 
swallowed a camel (spiritualism)" and instead of trying to 
be a manly man, as God intended us, we have tried to wipe 
and destroy God and all of His wonderful work of man and 
creation and to exalt our so-called wisdom before Him and 
exhibit to Him our supreme power over Him and His un- 
changeable laws, and assert over Him our own devices of 
the lying wonders and followers of the prince of the people 
named "Beelzebub," aud as gods of this world we can reveal 
great scientific revelations without God's help; and we are 
the followers and makers of lies of New Thought, Christian 
Science, B. Fay Mills' Fellowship of the Devil, Mrs. Tingly 
of Theosophy of Darkened India— and these all show them- 
selves as malignant against God and His scientific work of 
Truth. When you can explain the various bodies attracted 
by others as wood, stones, earth, metal, etc., tell me the 
foundation principle of electricity, then I will believe in 
spiritualism, reincarnation, hypnotism, table splitting by 
order of a medium, automatic writing. Wipe these all aside 
as the foolish vagaries of the human mind and let God 
simply reveal His simple truth of manifestation of His prin 
ciples of Magnetic batteries enclosed within these human 
bodies for us to finish the revelation of the truth as He com- 
menced and founded and laid the corner stone for us to 
find. 



SCIENCE 11 



Where are there sciences today that can prove with all 
of -their boasted selfish knowledge, their theories of any 
truth? Take the medical so-called science of today. What 
do they know? Who can explain the action of the Roent- 
gen rays and radium upon the human body? Through 
ignorance of this foundation of all disease (magnetic 
force)— we must suffer through ignorance of the so- 
called medical staff, and great injury is suddenly wrought to 
the patient. The simple explanation is to study the mag- 
netic power of each patient, analyze the amount of positive 
and negative magnetization force in the patient. If all 
physicians will turn to the foundation stone of medical 
knowledge and read upward instead of jumping here and 
there like a will o' the wisp on every topic under the sun 
except the right one, and when that is revealed all other 
knowledge will be added unto them; and God declares they 
will wander around in the dark, having eyes they see not, 
having ears they hear not. If a stranger should come to 
town and start to build a house from the roof to the founda- 
tion, what would we think of him? All physicians and 
medical researchers look in your glass! Pure Science is 
built on self evident truths. What man or woman who has 
written a foolish belief today and naming it mysterious as 
Ella Wheeler Wilcox claims she is an undeveloped god and 
has revealed New Thought as the "backbone of right 
thinking." The devil declares the same. God declares no 
man or woman is right. She declares some of her truths 
are very startling to the common people, but then they are 
true here and now. God declares they are false here and 
now. Mrs. Eddy, also in Christian Science, claims she is 
also equal with Christ, and that she is led by the spirit of 



12 SCIENCE 



Christ, being divine. These fakes are all claiming "science" 
as their leader. Now some one lies. Who? They cannot 
all be scientifically led by the Spirit, as none of them agree, 
and science is One Truth and all must agree that they are 
under the cloak of science and knowledge. 

People are not careful enough when writing to give the 
correct name to their works. What does God say to these 
erring ones? He declares they are calling on every theory 
to be a false god, and they all claim they are led by the Pure 
Spirit, when in fact it is proven by scientific truth that they 
are following the false principle of the Evil One. God 
declares they are all false; He says: "He that soweth unto 
his own flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that 
soweth unto the spirit shall of the spirit reap eternal life." 
These people all sow unto their own flesh. Here is a sad 
example of this corruption of the flesh. The devil sends out 
a magazine published by the New Thought people of New 
York City and they name it "Mysteries," because the people 
think under this very mysterious cloak they may find 
another Adam and Eve, and many will eat of the tree of 
knowledge of the devil and enter there into their fold by 
really giving you a great offer of the "Magazine of Mys- 
teries" for the small sum of $1.25 and, lo! Adam and Eve 
fell, and these editors declare that you need this tree of 
knowledge "Magazine of Mysteries." Now the devil was 
more subtle than any beast of the field which the Lord God 
had made, and it was pleasant to the eyes, and the Mysteries 
declares it will make one wise. When it will be too late, the 
eyes of the people receiving knowledge from these erring sci- 
entific people it will be too late. For just a limited time 



SCIENCE 13 



you may have this Satanic Majestic paper and meat substi- 
tute for the small sum of $1.25 for less than Judas sold 
Christ, his beloved master and saviour. 

Here is another of the mysteries of so-called Satanic 
Scientific revelations from a blind sister who, having eyes, 
sees not; having ears, she hears not: 

"Dear Brother and Sister— I feel as though I would like 
to help some one to this new belief and my spirit goes out 
to them that J talk to them in spirit (is she a god?) and I 
am able to bring them before me." — Magnetization in 
thought— just as the juggler compelled his people to really 
see the snake that was not there. 

In the February number I see one of the Mystics be- 
held the Divine Breathing Light. I wonder what this name 
means? Another Pagan mythology mystic god? Yes, God 
declares these people hasten after another god and make a 
god of their own device and worshippeth it. It is Divine 
Breathing Light (in other words the stone foundation of 
all false beliefs is the DEVIL). 

The writer continues, "I beheld the same light about 
two weeks ago, in answer to prayer; I know now just how 
we are connected with the Almighty. Now I beheld the 
outer ring on which He sat, with His back turned, as I took 
it, the Father, a crown on His head, while facing me, on the 
right side, stood the Christ. I stood in the outer rays and 
through these rays connected with other living things, 
bushes and trees alongside of me; it made me very happy 
and grateful to God to see this in your magazine, as I know 
it was no illusion. I had visions years ago, when I have 



14 SCIENCE 



seen the Christ and 1 know he was with me. Please pray 
for me that the money which is held from me may come to 
me." 

Poor, deceived woman, because some other Eve fell 
through magnetic manifestations or visions — she knows 
now it is no illusion! No indeed, it is no illusion— that is 
something we never have — even the rest of the people who 
are shut away in so-called "mad houses" are not crazy, 
neither do they have illusions. Their "switchboard" or 
nerve centre is crossed. I do not believe an insane person 
has any disease of the brain; these "brain-storms" so much 
talked of in our courts of today are nothing but the crossing 
of the telephone messages or adjoining fibres. To touch 
these nervous impulses and then these illusions, so-called, 
are sent to the brain just as telephone messages go astray if 
the wires are crossed, then this causes what we name in- 
sanity. 

The so-called disease of the brain is caused by the nerve 
force transmitting the electrical current crossed to the brain 
and these cause these erroneous visions just as this poor 
woman had them. We may have only one vision, or many. 
We know she is wrong when she babbles so foolishly about 
seeing God and Christ. She had a small "brain storm." 
God declares "Thou canst not see my face; for there shall 
no man see me and live."— Ex. 33-20. 

This woman claims to have seen God and Christ and she 
still lives; and she also claims she saw Christ. How does 
she dare to declare such falsehoods? There was never a 
picture of Christ in the world. She did not see Christ. 
Every picture we have claiming to be Christ's is false, and 



SCIENCE 15 



every image that people have of man claiming to be Christ's 
is false, because God did not allow such blasphemy of the 
God-head of His only Son. He sent Christ here to remember 
Him so deeply and sincerely in our hearts we would not 
need a human false image to remind us of the real living 
Saviour. He did not go as a human being, but He promised 
to be with us always in spirit; then why do we need a 
picture of a false man to make us remember the Blessed 
Saviour? And Christ taught us that through His teachings 
and life and death proved to us all what He came for and He 
positively forbid the use of images, whether used for adora- 
tion or just as a symbol of devotion. He declares " Thou 
shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any 
likeness of anything that is in heaven above." Even a 
child can understand this. He positively forbid the use of 
images in any form and declared we must follow Him; that 
He is the only One Mediator, the Christ, and we need no 
false prophet or magnetic revelation of a false illusion or 
image to keep us pure and holy in our hearts; we do not 
need a false picture of Christ as a common man to seal His 
divinity. No! He is everlasting witness and we have Him 
always with us. Why do we need a false picture? The 
earliest attempts at photographing were in 1827. Roger 
Bacon is the first man supposed to have made a picture of 
the human race a success and that was in 1214. Does this 
not prove that this woman did not see Christ, but she simply 

had an electrical phosphorescent vision of her own nerve 
forces ? 

If when we get puzzled over man's researching for truth 

and cannot make their research connect with God's Law and 

Book of True Eevelation; if we cannot, then we should 



16 SCIENCE 



turn away from these human teachers and find out God's 
way and search for ourselves for His Truth revealed. 

We know that this light from this woman's vision was 
nothing but a phosphorescent light— I have caused them to 
come into a room myself, when I was young. A human 
body which emits these lights is one that has great electrical 
power raised to a high temperature. This is probably due 
to the absorption of the energy of the vibration and mag- 
netization drawn from other people, as in Faladdin's exper- 
ience, to find a spirit instead she caused a light to circle 
round her head and emit flashes of light, and as she caused 
these different vibrations to act and absorb and still radi- 
ated the forces from the people in the seances, the cause of 
this so-called phenomena being short, rarely more than a 
smail fraction of a second, as it is all due to combustion of all 
these human elements, which oxidizes at a low temperature. 
Take a piece of sugar and cut it in the dark— it will 
emit a faint light. Is this supernatural or spirits from 
heaven? No! It is only another example of God's know- 
ledge given to men to prove that spiritualism is a terrible 
error of mankind seeking to know the truth. This light is 
also due to the complete absorption of the energy of the 
electrical vibration, and a positive person can radiate from 
negative again and again. I think every human being 
possesses this quality in a greater or less degree. Where is 
science? Where is knowledge? 

" W T hat is man that thou takest knowledge?" 

"Oh, teach me why thou dost contend, and say 
Thy theories blasted, hasten to decay. 
Only God teaches me the paths wherein I go astray; 
He, only, repeals the secret error of our way. 
Reform, correct, subdue thy offending mind, 
Too often stubborn, impotent, or blind." 



KXO W LEDGE 



17 



^KlXtelt&Xp 



WHAT IS KNOWLEDGE? 

A clear and certain perception of that which exists, or of Truth and 
Fact; the perception of the connection and agreement of Facts. We can 
have no knowledge of that which does >~ot exist. Only God has a per- 
fect kxowlgdge of all His works. Human knowledge is very limited, 
and is mostly gained by human observation and human aid and learning 
as they reject knowledge from God, and God declares that ignorance is 
the curse of God. Knowledge, the only true knowledge, is from God, not 
man." —Webster. 



ESV THOUGHT claims to have all knowledge 
and Mrs. Wilcox is the voice of the people; 
what she thinks is clearly a lovable philosophy 
of simple construction from her pen. New 
Thought is the right knowledge, and Mrs. 
Wilcox declares the brain cells which have 
been shaped by the old theology of a true God cannot all 
at once be returned to the maker of human theology (devil). 
How mysterious men and foolish women try to make their 
foolish knowledge seem so great and mysterious. Here is a 



1 




• 



18 KNOWLEDGE 



so called New Thought in New York City and Ella Wneeler 
Wilcox is one of the contributors. They name their false 
god " The Great Cosmic Controller of Immensity," 
and these declare He prospers the truth. If that is knowl- 
edge, it is knowledge not found between the lids of the bible 
from Adam to Revelation. The writer has a number of 
bibles in the house, and cannot find "Great Cosmic Con- 
troller of Immensity." Where did they rind this name? 
Never in God's holy book! Then, if God's knowledge is 
true, their boasted and exalted false knowledge is false. 
Then, if their foundation is false by giving God a false 
name — the founder of all truth— their knowledge will 
surely fall, as it is built upon sand. 

If as much time was spent in seeking the truth of hu- 
man magnetism as these false people spend in drawing God 
down to them instead of climbing up to him; as these so- 
called professors and noted men claiming to search for the 
truth of spiritualism; if they would spend as much time in 
discussing and searching out God's trutnas revealed to them 
by Him, they would have found the truth before this. They 
have been searching out unimportant questions and retro- 
grading into useless spiritualism, table-rapping and all the 
rest of the foolish, unimportant and useless search after 
knowledge without God. Spiritualism is not knowledge, it 
is merely the sensation of electrical force masked under the 
name of spiritualism and unseen force or spirits. Spiritual- 
ism is nothing only the hypnotism exercised by a medium 
over her audience, and as the air is also charged with these 
electrical currents, they are all helpers in her self-deceived 
belief of her own foolish power. 



KNOWLEDGE 19 

Spiritualism is nothing but the opinion of mankind, and 
it may be true or not be; they try to remove misconception 
of the subject out of the mire of ignorance, rend the cloak 
of receiving knowledge and light, but instead of receiving 
more light they are getting deeper and deeper into the 
slough of ignorance. How many have read Plato's Eepublic 
where he gave as a theory of what he thinks is knowledge 
and gives this illustration that is true, and by it teaches 
these people seeking truth under the cloak of spiritualism, 
as the bible teaches us that we see through a glass darkly; 
and that there is only liberty from this knowledge through 
the Spirit of Christ. This is the picture Plato gave: He 
pictures a majority of mankind (seekers after spiritualism 
and find it not) as prisoners in a subterranean cavern, 
chained with their backs to the fire (God) looking at the 
shadows thrown by it on the rocky wall and mistaking them 
for realities, at last turning around to the true light 
(God's knowledge and truth of human magnetism revealed) 
their toilsome ascent up the steep slope to the mouth of the 
cave, the gradual training of their eyes to see the real 
thing (knowledge of human magnetism). 

How foolish to continually talk about fraud with spirit- 
ualism. One of these so called noted professors of general 
pathology at the University of Naples claimed " that at the 
conclusion of several tests of sittings by Eusapia (medium) 
and that at this time a great majority of investigators had 
come to consider fraud a dismissed solution, but it w T as 
hoped that with increased knowledge of conditions favor- 
able to mediumistic manifestations. They claim they may 
also find new results, and perhaps more startling results 
might be secured. That is what they are seeking— 'some 



20 KNOWLEDGE 



new and something startling' — in other words, results to 
deceive the deceived people." The professor continues: "In 
this we were not disappointed. They wanted documents 
and proofs that there were spirits." 

Yes, she gave them the document and proof they re- 
quested; it was this : Everything must be registered by 
writing and photography. Will she (medium) be able to 
illuminate a screen treated with platino-cyanide of barium ? 
Will she be able to discharge a gold-leaf of electroscope 
without touching it? And these foolish professors call her 
wonderful, and this was documental and proof of her spirit- 
ual power to bring back unseen spirits. 

This automatic writing is only done by magnetization, 
as she can discharge and recharge her magnetic power at 
will, without touching the object she wishes to control. Of 
course she will be able to illuminate a screen composed of 
platino-cyanide barium. Platino is a metal composed 
with cyanide of barium. Yes, barium will make a great 
electric current. Now why, with all these simple mag- 
netization articles, should she not illuminate the screen? 
and these people call this document and proof of spirit- 
ualism. 

When the writer was young, the young people of the 
town used to hold so-called seances or parties in sittings for 
fun, and one out of the crowd we would blindfold and take 
hold of his hand, and some one else would go and hide a 
thimble or any article in some other room in a book in a 
large book case, or under a bed and this blindfolded person 
would immediately walk to the place take the exact book 
out and find the thimble. Nothing supernatural about this! 



KNOWLEDGE 21 

It was simply the electrical current in my hand sending the 
message in my mind and transmitting it to his mind— the 
writer simply connected the electrical wires of the sender 
(by clasping hands) to the wires of the receiver. Nothing 
supernatural about Usapia (medium). These noted men 
crossing the Atlantic to seek knowledge from this poor 
woman, had better wipe the hallucination of unseen spirits 
from their minds and eyes or sight and unbind their bondage 
of chains and seek the truth of the power of magnetism, of 
human power and not "Are the Dead Alive?" As Mr. 
William Stead, a prominent noted journalist and writer, de- 
clares, "I do not believe the dead depart; they are still with 
us." This is erroneous; he should ask "Are the living 
dead?" God's Word says dead men live and are full 
of dead men's bones (foolishly). These people had also 
a telegraphic key which had been placed in a cabinet. Why 
not use some other kind of a key and not a telegraphic key ? 
They placed this outside of the reach of the medium's hand, 
as they wished to show to a "credulous public" a "graphic 
tracing" of the movements of the electro-magnetic needle, 
connected with the keyboard, recorded on a sheet of smoked 
paper, at a considerable distance from the medium. Now it 
is always possible to suggest that Mr. X was the victim of 
hallucinations. It will not avail to add that the sounds 
w T ere heard by all present. The obstinately incredulous will 
reply: "That may be a brainstorm on electrical hallucina- 
tion," but in fact it was nothing but positive electricity. 
What is foolishness? What is jargon ? If this is not con- 
fusion or babbling of tongues and confusion of mind, what 
is it? 



22 KNOWLEDGE 

Here these searchers of truth declare these noises are 
produced by an "electrical telegraphic key" and the motion 
caused by an electro magnetic needle, and after know- 
this must be nothing but human magnetism and electrical 
power that causes these acts, these people close their eyes to 
the truth and hold up their hands in astonishment and be- 
wilderment of mind to see the great truth God tries to lead 
us into by the effect of the cause of the telegraphic key and 
its work and the work of the electro magnetic needle. Then 
they think in their ignorance that we are all going to cry 
"incredulous" and declare they have hallucinations. No, 
we must understand the effect from the cause, and do not 
cry anything but "ignorance." 

Just see Britannica and read on page 2167 and use your 
own brains that God gave you and you will receive enough 
knowledge without going across the Atlantic to find Eusapia 
or her $500,000 room, erected by more foolish benighted 
people than herself; and what do they seek? These foolish 
men traveled far to find the unknown treasure of knowl- 
edge, that if they had listened to God, instead of man, they 
w r ould have received His revealed knowledge at their own 
door, under the human name of human magnetism. 

The mechanical movement produced by a person's hand 
by magnetism depends upon the strength or quality of 
attracting distant objects. To arrive at any sensible or 
general understanding of the electrical key making a 
noise, and also the electro magnet needle, we must have a 
general understanding how a dynamo produces a volume of 
magnetism and a motion receives the same and is moved by 
it. Unknowingly, by her invisable magnetic power, Eusapia 



KNOWLEDGE 



was the cause of all noises and the writing. Where can you 
make an unseen spirit with man's magnetic power? You 
may go to the greatest medium in the world and if the 
electrical and magnetization is not there you will not find 
one of these foolishly so called spirits from the heavens. It 
is necessary to know what is meant by an electro magnet, as 
these foolish men were deceived by the more than foolish 
medium as she knew she could not have obtained results by 
any other method, since the electricity is in her that is the 
compelling force over the people in the seances, and they 
are helping her in the foolish work called spirit rapping, and 
marvelous demonstrations of the spirit forces from heaven. 
The electro magnet is the chiefest part of both machines — 
the medium is the electro magnet. 

The difference between a natural magnet and an electro 
magnet is that the first part is a piece of steel, which having 
been applied to, or drawn along some other magnet, re- 
tains its magnetic quality (medium) and continues to attract 
other pieces (people in seance) of steel or iron for an indefi- 
nite time. This is commonly seen in the shape of a 
"horse-shoe" magnet. An electro magnet is one which is 
only a magnet. An electro magnet is one which is only a 
magnet temporarily, which under the influence of an electric 
current is passed round and round it through a wire 
with which it is wound in many layers. When the current 
traversing or passing over this wire is cut off, the electro 
magnet instantly ceases to be a magnet, or to attract, and 
releases that which it held by attraction, and when the cur- 
rent is put on again it again attracts or pulls. So that it 
may not retain its magnetism it is always made of soft iron 
instead of steel. Why cannot men think ? If any one will 



24 KNOWLEDGE 



step into a telegraph office and do a little thinking for 
himself, he can observe the little instrument on a table, pul- 
ling down and letting go again. This little instrument, 
placed in men's hands by God's law, will teach him what 
spiritualism is without any- help from a medium, and he 
will at once understand the action of the electro magnet. 

The tracing of the electro magnetic needle is nothing 
puzzling, nor is it an hallucination, as these noted writers 
and professors think and try and have us believe it. Neith- 
er are mediums a fake; everything they do is real and made 
by human law and our own magnetic bodies— nothing 
mysterious nor unreal. This electro magnetic needle is 
necessary to the key board. If a spirit does this, why 
have a magnetic key? This is explained in a few words, 
and we do not have to cross the Atlantic to receive this 
truth from a poor peasant woman. Here is the truth in 
a few words; the magnetism of electricity and the electricity 
of magnetism. There is no such thing as hallucination or 
phenomena in any of these gatherings to be explained, but 
it is analyzed simply by the Truth of God's own Truth. 
One of these produce the other. A magnet can be made to 
produce a current and a current will make a magnet. 
Remember the great force of truth is, the direction in 
which the magnetism induced by electricity acts is alw T ays 
at right angles to the direction of the current. Re- 
member this when using a medium's hand for any so-called 
mysterious spirit-rappings or noises of any kind. Thus if a 
table has a certain kind of electrical current and is connect- 
ed with the medium s hands as a source of electricity, and 
the hand is then removed there will be a magnetic force or 
noise in the space where the hand pointed at. An electrical 



KMO W LEDGE 25 



current will always go by the easiest way — the way of least 
resistance — the electro current becomes a magnet by induced 
electricity, because electricity has the power of inducing 
all bodies— human bodies— in its field of thought to assume 
an electrical condition. This postively explains away the 
so-called spiritual or phenomena manifestations of Eusapia. 
We are nothing but a body of living batteries of megnetic 
fields. Our power is just beginning to be known or revealed 
to us. 

This theory is only a drop in the mighty ocean of 
human knowledge, I will not say research, because 1 did not 
research. God revealed this all to me through His grace; 
you receive the cornerstone of "theorem of spiritual- 
ism". Here in a leading magazine I find a noted Iona, an 
engineer and president of the Italian Electro Technical 
Association, going to the poor peasant medium and her so- 
called seances to search for knowledge. Adam and Eve ate 
of the tree of human knowledge and fell. This professor of 
so-claimed electrical knowledge eats of this spiritualistic 
belief, also falls into the deepest and is the greatest victim 
of error. He goes to seek knowledge away from the true 
knowledge right at his own door. 

These plastic casts of impression in clay produced by a 
so called unseen force or spirit in the December Delineator 
is only natural. We can all have the same impressions by 
these so called unseen forces. The truth of these magnetic 
electrical forces are proven by themselves. Yes, of course 
they are unseen, but they are not unknown, they were 
known before Christ came on earth, but the pagans then, as 
the pagans do today, call the magnetic power in us a divine 



26 KKO W'LEBGE 



spirit. These professors and writers of note seem to be 
possessed to have electric wires in their seances or else 
the spirits can not come and deal with the electrical force, 
and still with all of this before their eyes and mind r 
they, in their ignorance still name it an unseen force or 
spirit. They write about the electrical receiving instruments 
which were put in morion before the seance commenced. 
This they name a Convinced Spiritist who was present at 
the next seance. Yes, of course they felt an unseen pres- 
ence; they declare it was a spirit of the heavens, or 
erroneously called "the other world." Yes, certainly, they 
felt an unseen presence— it is human electrical currents. 

Yes, they ail felt the power of the great nerve force 
of the medium drawing the little magnetic electric wires 
from them, conducting them and drawing them to her 
great nerve force on the switchboard. The people could not 
see this unseen force, but could feel the electrical messages 
sent to them from the medium and her drawing their own 
dynamic currents to her. 

Why do these people need or deal in "receiving tele- 
graphic" machines and have to put them in motion be- 
fore a "mediumistic chain" is made and have electrical 
cylinders in motion in a neighboring room before they can 
bring a spirit to earth? Queer how they must have so much 
human contrivances and human electrical machinery to 
devise an ethereal spirit. It is like making or putting to- 
gether a human skeleton by wires after God has called the 
spirit to live with Him, not to come back here, as man con- 
trives to place the bones together for help and knowledge to 



KNOWLEDGE 27 



mankind, but they cannot do God's work. Just so with 
these professors; they can have all contrivances devised by 
man to bring spirits here to earth from heaven to communi- 
cate with us and overlook the wonderful force of truth they 
have left behind to seek for false things. God declares they 
hasten after other gods and deny the true God who can reveal, 
and will, if they will only seek Him. You ask: "Why is it, 
if the^e are unseen spirits, that all cannot communicate with 
their loved ones who have passed away?" Which they 
surely could do if spiritualism is true. 

This theory proves itself true electrical experiments of 
the human body and proves that certain people have, while 
others have not, the power of conveying electricity from 
one person or body to another, or in another phrase, con- 
ducting or drawing it. Have these professors true knowl- 
edge ? True knowledge — a clear and certain perception of 
that which exists. Have they received any knowledge? 

The power of one mind influencing another at a great 
distance positively denies any spiritualistic forms or occult 
force and proves the writer's Theorem. This foolish fad 
over thought force is nothing new; the pagans before us 
used it and claimed as the so-named enlightened people do 
today, to have a knowledge of a God and that they were 
a God. The Ancient Chaldeans and Egyptians and the ig- 
norant (enlightened) people of India for centuries dabbled 
with this power. If it was true why has it not been proven 
so before as an undeniable fact? And \ve smart people have 
reaped the results for thousands and thousands of years and 
the self-evident fact still remains — we are just as ignorant 
as our ancestors (pagans). 



28 KNOWLEDGE 



Instead of progressing as truth ought, this so called 
thought force has regenerated into spiritualism again, as it 
never has been very dead— only rises under different names 
—is a nemesis rising out of paganism. Dead men, God de- 
clares, are living, yet dead; are trying to bring back foolish 
pagan beliefs and forms. As far back as history, mankind 
has always done this undeniable fact, but it has always been 
a good investigation for mankind, because when the Evil 
One gets busy he awakens God's people to also get busy and 
investigate. 

Mind never accomplished anything with the little tele- 
graphic lines and switchboard God made for each individual 
to receive the knowledge to the brain, and the foolishness 
of mankind names it mind over matter, or force thought. 
They can talk about mind being master or supreme over all, 
but if it was not placed at the headquarters of the switch- 
board of the telegraphic messages, we would never have 
messages or methods of any kind. 

If Hindu mysticism believes all things can be accom- 
plished by mind without God, then why are they so ignorant 
and backward in every progression of mankind; and why 
are they the most ignorant of any race of mankind? And 
still they call ignorance, knowledge. 

Last of all, if anyone going to these seances will kindly 
place a rubber cap on his head, rubbers on his feet, a rubber 
coat on his back, he may call for spirits until he dies, and he 
will never find or hear those mysterious sounds or see spirits. 
Seek knowledge. 

Francis Darwin delivered an address to the British As- 
sociation, about where consciousness begins, and as the 
so called scientific men held and declared it to be an absolute 



KNOWLEDGE 29 



fact that consciousness was impossible without at least the 
rudiments of a nervous system and after declaring this 
truth, Mr. Darwiu comes before the Scientific Association 
with another new theory or fact as he declares. Indeed, 
"he is the worthy son of his worthy father and he has 
changed his mind and demurred at this limitation." 

"It must be remembered," he said "that plants have two, 
at least, of the qualities characteristic of animals — namely, 
extreme sensitiveness of certain agencies and the power of 
transmitting stimuli from one part to another of the plant 
body. 

"It is true there is no central nervous system, nothing 
but a complex system of nuclie, but they have some of the 
qualities of nerve cells. Jt is impossible to know whether 
or not plants are conscious, but is consistent with the doc- 
trine of continuity that in all living things there is 
something psychic and, if we accept that point of view, we 
must believe that in plants there exists a faint copy of what 
we know as consciousness in ourselves. 

"From consciousness to naturism and from naturism to 
anientism are long steps, but they are only steps. Edward 
Clodd quotes an experiment made by the late Mr. Romanes 
upon a skye terrier in the latter's own words: 'The dog 
used to play with dry bones by tossing them in the air, 
throwing them to a distance and generally giving them the 
appearance of animation in order to give himself the pleas- 
ure of worrying them. 

"'On one occasion I tied a thread to a dry bone and gave 
it to the terrier to play with. After he had tossed it about 
for a short time, when it had fallen at a distance from him. 
and while he was following it up, I took the opportunity of 
gently drawing it away from him by means of the long in- 
visible thread. Instantly his whole demeanor changed; the 
bone w T hich he had previously pretended to be alivp began to 
look as if it were really alive and his astonishment knew no 



30 KNOWLEDGE 



bounds. He first approached it with nervous caution, but 
as the slow, receding moyement continued and he became 
quite certain that this movement could not be accounted for 
by the residium of force which he had himself communica- 
ted, his astonishment developed into dread and he ran to 
conceal himself under some articles of furniture, there to 
behold at a distance the uncanny spectacle of a dry bone 
coming to life.' 

"In this action of the dog we see something akin to that 
of primitive man, as set forth by Mr. Dartland in his address 
on the religion of the lower culture: 'Early man, sur- 
rounded by the unknown, would be oppressed by awe and 
wonder and the feeling of power which lay behind external 
phenomena. Interpreting these phenomena in the terms of 
his own consciousness, he would regard them as manifesta- 
tions of personality. Every personality thus manifested 
would be possessed of needs and potentialities akin to those 
he felt within himself.' 

"And this, too, was the meaning of Hobbes when he 
said: 'The fear of things invisible is the seed of all re- 
ligion.' 

"The believers in supernatural religion see this as 
clearly as Mr. Clodd himself, when he asserts that 'to study 
man apart is to misconceive him, it is to refuse to apply the 
only key to interpretation of the story of his intellectual and 
spiritual history. There should be, nowadays, little need to 
labor this point. The artificial lines drawn between instinct 
in animals and reason as the prerogative of man have van- 
ished.' 

" That is very well for Mr. Clodd and the naturalists, but 
it is by no means so easy for the theologian who is asking 
not only 'whither are we going?' but 'where are we to 
stop ? ' 

"From religious man to primitive man, from primitive 
man to reasoning animal, from the reasoning animal to the 



KJW WLEDGE 31 

'conscious' plant, from the conscious plant to the lowest 
organism are but steps in the 'descent of man," and where, 
does the minister of religion ask, 'does faith in the super- 
natural come in?' 

" The science of anthropology, of which hierology is a 
subdivision, is not yet sufficiently organized to justify such 
blind acquiescence in its 'laws' as we extend, for instance, 
to the law of gravitation. The hesitation of theologians to 
associate themselves with this, as yet, imperfect science, is 
sufficiently natural and reasonable. And the students of 
hierology will do well to remember the wise words of Count 
Gobeiet d'Alviella: ' We do not ask of this science what it 
is rational to believe, but how men have come to believe and 
practice certain things.' " 

Mr. Darwin will pass away like his father, as he missed 
the link in proving to the people evolution, or that our fore- 
fathers were monkeys and that we came by chance or sprang 
up like a weed. Darwin is dead and God's truth goes on 
forever and forever. Mr. Francis Darwin, Jr., pops up like 
a Russian cactus — he also comes changing his belief and 
fickle mind every few years and telling us each time that he 
has the facts of each thought he brings before the public 
and instead of presenting facts, he tells us to not labor with 
this question. The artificial lines between man and animal 
have vanished. He forgot to tell us when and how they 
vanished, as no one else has discovered this untruth to be true. 

Now this consciousness that he declared once was im- 
possible without at least the rudiments of a nervous system 
and now he changes his mind without proving the truth of 
his declaration that plants have tw T o elements that animals 
have and he seems to think he has discovered a great theory 
without any facts or principles. No, the Greeks knew 
more about the elements in a plant or stone than he. It 



32 KNOWLEDGE 



was the Greeks, as far back as history goes, who first discov- 
ered this truth of electrical currents in plants or any object, 
and it declares this fact without Mr. Darwin's theory That 
is, the word electricity is from the Greek and meaning 
amber (a mineral, not plant) — the name of the man that 
first discovered that amber, a mineral, a substance neither 
plant nor animal, that it has the same power of attracting 
and repelling as a plant, does positively prove Mr. Darwin 
in the wrong. ^Now, according to Mr. Darwin's belief, if a 
plant has a soul so does a stone or any other conductive ele- 
ment. How foolish for a man to declare because a plant 
has the power to transmit from one part to another it must 
be conscious. He declares they have some qualities of nerve 
cells or (magnetization power) as in human beings. Yes, so 
does a stone, or magnetic iron, possess a remarkable attrac- 
tion power for iron. Can a stone have consciousness? If a 
plant does, a stone also surely does, according to the belief 
of Mr. Darwin. 

If all we need is attracting or transmitting one from 
another to make a soul, then there is no such thing as a soul. 
If everything had a soul before man came on earth— as 
stones and plants were here before God placed man—and if 
they have a soul now, they surely had a soul then, and Mr. 
Darwin declares they have— then why in all common sense 
have they not progressed beyond man? Because a person 
that has a soul is the only thing in all life or ages that has 
progressed in all history. 

These scientific people get their explanation terribly 
jumbled and muddled together and expect us to accept them 
as true facts, without any questions. 



KJfO WLEDGE 33 



Mr. Darwin declares in one place that it is impossible to 
tell whether or not plants are conscious, but he then declares 
it is consistent with the doctrine of continuity and you must 
believe that, if it is proven false. 

He declares that in all living things there is something 
psychic (soul) and if we accept that point of view we must 
believe that in plants there exists a faint copy of a soul, as 
in ourselves. What! because any object has electricity in 
itself, then it must have a soul? Never! God's whole uni- 
verse denies this; it is false. Mr. Darwin's plants may have 
a soul as large as his, but not the kind of a soul that God 
gave to mankind to investigate the truth as far as God 
allows us to investigate, and that is farther than man has 
ever discovered in the past. Many years ago the so-called 
wise men declared they had reached the end of life, and now 
they are just as far behind as the Greeks were in the begin- 
ning, because they are rejecting knowledge. God's truth for 
the false — again the same old conceit of man. God is just 
as mysterious to man as He was in the beginning, for whose 
very existence man is foolishly searching; and God declares 
"I am that I am. I am the living God ! " We positively do 
know that all force is caused by electricity and we are kept 
alive by the vibration of currents. 

These searchers after truth forget God and forget His 
word and think they can become intelligent beings without 
Him and just when they clap their hands and shout victory, 
lo, God places a dark abyss before them again. After de- 
claring their theory is true at the beginning, before they 
have finished you will readily see that they all will cry " I 
am not certain." We have all made a studv of the soul 



34 KNOWLEDGE 

and they only agree on one point and that is that a force 
exists within ourselves. Ah, God told us that a great many 
thousand of years ago! Are we any point ahead of our fore- 
fathers? The majority of these so-called scientific men are 
so wrapped up in the flesh (devil), so tied down to their 
theories and the material invisible things of God, and in 
trying to be God instead of progressing up to God, they are 
incapable of grasping the simple ideas worked out by human 
people and the mystery encased in this great temple God 
made for us to investigate and find out the power He has 
given us to use for His glory, not honor for ourselves, and 
to illuminate His name, and to use that power to lead others 
up to a higher plane of thought of living for Him, not for 
ourselves. 

Now, if we accept all living things as with souls, just 
because they attract and repel, then we must also accept the 
magnet as alive, as it can attract distant objects. Because 
the atmosphere is full of electricity and attracts and repels, 
is there any sensible reason that it is alive? Because an 
iron ring will hang suspended by the attraction of a load- 
stone it is not true that the loadstone or iron is alive or has 
a soul. Mr. Darwin seems to declare if a body has the 
power to transmit, then that body must become conscious. 
That this is not true has been proven by the past, and when 
821 B. C. came this was proven to be a fact. 

Because plants have some kind of electricity or some- 
thing that God has endowed a plant with to multiply and 
can transmit, does not surely prove to any fair mind that 
will stop and think that the plant has a soul, and God de- 
clares we must not believe that plauts have any con- 



KNOWLEDGE 35 

sciousness, as ourselves. We must not rely on Mr. Darwin's 
weak argument placed before the people. He declares that 
there should be nowadays little need to labor this point. 
The artificial lines drawn between instinct in animals and 
reason as the prerogative of man have vanished. 

Yes, Mr. Darwin thinks and believes he has the same 
foolish class of men and people to deal with as his father 
had before him. He knows that with all of his father's 
errors and erroneous ideas and teachings, even w T hen he de- 
clared he could not find all of the missing links between 
man and monkey, that even with all these facts before their 
mind and faces, foolish men believed him to be a god and 
" immortal." Indeed, he is a " worthy " son of his father 
and he can also deceive the people and still men will believe 
him and to this day believe we are the descendants of mon- 
keys. God declares that man will hasten after other gods 
that shall come before men to lead them astray and they 
will follow a god that cannot save, and every man will cry 
to this god of science and will try to draw God down to 
man's invention. 

Now the fact is that today the same gaps stand wide 
open between man and monkey just the same as when Mr. 
Darwin's father was alive and deceived a credulous peo- 
ple, and this is proven by the naturalists' statements when 
they frankly admit, as Darwin also did when alive, that all 
liberal evolutionists deny that man is a descendant from a 
monkey. 

First— The origin of life which required a given germ 
has not yet been discovered. 



36 KJfO W'LEDGE 



Second — A species to link the quadrumana with man, 
which up to the present date in the year of our Lord, 1909, 
January 18, has not been discovered or found by human 
mind or investigation. 

Third— The beginning of mind and soul or mind as a 
reasoning intellect in man is distinct from animal instinct 
given by God to animals in place of a mind of intelligence 
given to man. 

Mr Darwin declares, as his father did, that you must 
forget these missing links and truths and receive wisdom 
from them and that there is no more need for you to labor 
this point. Because, he declares, these lines have vanished 
between man and monkey; but he failed to tell the great 
truth— where they vanished— as no one else has ever seen 
them. We would like to have him tell us so we can go and 
rediscover them as well as he. 

Does Mr. Darwin imagine we are imbeciles or blind ig- 
noramuses, and that we all lack knowledge of thinking for 
ourselves in his august presence? And he still declares, 
with all these positive proofs of the falseness of his state- 
ments, that the chain is complete! Queer logic, is it not? 
He says from "religious man to primitive man, from primi- 
tive man to reasoning animal, from reasoning animal to the 
conscious plant, from the conscious plant to the lowest 
organism are but steps in the descent of man." 

Yes, Mr. Darwin, that is true; but you read God's holy 
book, and He declares we must not descend, but we must 
ascend— continually move upward toward knowledge and 
wisdom. Satan invites us to descend, to retrogade, or go 
backward, and to claim to be progressive at the same time. 



KNOWLEDGE 37 



God positively declares knowledge and progression is to go 
forward, not backward, and you say that man is no more 
nor less than a stone or the lowest kind of organism. Are 
we idiots? Are we blind that we acquiesce in his blind, 
foolish babbling of ignorance about God's progression of 
mankind? Then if he be true, there is nothing to live for, 
nothing to strive for, nothing for which to aim higher; we 
have reached the top, only we have landed at the bottom. 
If we listen to God and not to man there will be nothing on 
earth that man cannot do here or accomplish if he will listen 
to his God; but if he tries to sink lower than the beasts of 
the field, he surely will fall into the darkest depths of the 
greatest ignorance that man is heir to, and that is the lowest 
form of a degenerate man— because man must progress or 
retrograde; he cannot stand still. 

Because man has elements like a woman is no reason 
why he must be a woman. If a man has a few elements like 
an animal or bird is no reason he must be an animal or 
bird; if a man has transmitting power similar to a stone is 
no reason that he must be a stone— or that all of these must 
have a soul because man has. No! Nearly everything has 
some kind of an electrical current passing through its sub- 
stance, and this is no reason that there must be a soul also. 
Because some stones have an attractive and a repelling 
power or current is not proof that the stone has a soul. 

Every object in God's universe may have some magneti- 
zation of a positive and a negative nature and still not have 
a soul. 

Man and woman, or the whole human race, are the only 
living elements that have souls. God declares this fact and 



38 KNOWLEDGE 



God is not mocked and He is not man that he should lie. 
The fool says there is no God and declares the theory of 
evolution is perfect, and God declares men lie and deceive 
and still we follow their pernicious ways when we know 
that out of their own mouths they own their deceitf ulness, 
and God declares that whosoever loveth and maketh a lie 
shall be punished, and how willing we are to believe them. 
God's is a perfect law and never changes. He is eternal, 
unsearchable (no matter how long man searches for him, in 
themselves, they will never find him) and His laws never 
never change, not even to suit man. 

Then why forsake Him for Darwin and all of his false 
assertions about evolution. Darwin's father died leaving 
the people as much in ignorance and doubt as to our begin- 
ning and end as we were before he came to study the species 
of fish and other creatures. He himself died just as much 
in the dark as he left us in ignorance, only some people he 
left groping deeper and deeper in the mire than before, be- 
cause evolution has never been proven and it surely has not 
proven itself to strong minds, and it never will as long as 
God's world stand, that man is perfect and God is imperfect. 

We know that the electrical currents in the air or the 
igneous condition of the earth is something similar to the 
currents in our bodies, but that does not prove that the earth 
has a soul. 

If animals had souls before man, and Darwin declares 
they had, is it not strange that after progressing thous- 
ands of years on earth they are not men and vice versa? Is 
there any sense in this or is this theory not a very great mind 
defect? I am afraid Mr. Darwin's switchboard is out of re- 
pair and that his telephone wires have gone astray or are 



KNOWLEDGE 39 

short circuited. Any thing that has a soul must progress 
here on earth and if an animal has a soul now, he surely 
has always had one and he ought to be ahead of man by the 
laws of evolution if the Darwinian theory and explanation 
of consciousness be true. No, God declares He made all 
animals, not one kind left out, and no animal shall enter 
the kingdom of heaven, and after every animal of its kind 
was made, God made man in His own image (soul) to rule 
and govern over all of these animals, and man has proven 
this fact to be true, as he has done this ever since the fall of 
Adam up to the present day. God's laws always prove 
everything true. Man's law without God's is always crooked 
and uncertain, and they are always uncertain and never 
right without God. "But these, as natural brute beasts 
made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things they 
understand not shall utterly perish in their own corrup- 
tion."— Bible. 



THEOREM 41 



€htxtxtm r xtx Qvtexdtupg xtf ^^ixiimlfam 



" What God has denied, fools will pursue." 



New Rockford, N. D., Dec. 25, 1908. 
Mr. Albert Shaw* 

New York City, N. Y. 
Dear Sir:— J take the liberty of writing you on the ques- 
tion of the investigation of spiritualism before the people 
today. 

I notice in the Review of Reviews that you are very 
much, if not a believer, in occult so named science, or "Are 
the Dead Alive Again?" Will you kindly read the enclosed 
article and write me what you think about it and if you 
publish such articles in your magazine ? 

Let us not be blind, but reason among ourselves and try 
the spirits, and let us receive our knowledge not from man's 
interpretation, but from God's own word, the truth. His 



42 THEOREM 



book is the only book whereby man receives the true knowl- 
edge and it is easy to him who understandeth. God is the 
only spirit that can give us knowledge, and the treasure of 
wisdom and knowledge and through His own word "the 
truth of all knowledge. 

These so called scientific people are going mad over the 
foolish Eusapia and erected a room at the fabulous cost of 
$500,000 to facilitate spiritualistic investigation and make a 
divinity of her to worship as something beyond a common 
mortal, as did Caesar, and he fell and all of his foolish fol- 
lowers—as she will, also. She is at the zenith of her foolish 
power, and as Christ declared, they will almost deceive the 
very elect — if it were possible. How sad it is that the human 
race or people do not think for themselves — they always fol- 
low some magnet stronger than themselves. For a good 
many years I have tried to solve this problem of spiritualism 
as intuitively I knew it was neither spiritual nor occult 
beings, but it came simply from the living; and in reading 
some of the articles on the subject. 

It was after reading an article in the Delineator in Jan- 
uary that this revelation came to me by prayer, not by any 
study or thought as I write it to you. It is not myself that 
reveals this, because it came all at once and I wrote it down. 
As this truth is revealed to me I have told it to a few peo- 
ple and they wished me to write it to you, as they believe I 
have solved the mystery of so-called occult spiritualism, and 
convince you I speak the truth. God revealed a certain 
theory, partially, to Luther. He also revealed my theory, 
partially, to Mesmer. 



THEOREM 43 



If spiritualism, or communicating with the unseen 
world is true, why do not all communicate with the ethereal 
spirits? 

Just as the opposite parts of the magnet are called its 
"poles," just so are the nerves of a person called force. 
The so-named mediums are used as healers— why? Because 
the person who possesses the stronger magnetic current 
heals the weaker. 

You go to a human magnet (spiritualist) woman or man 
and they cannot tell your fortune, past, present or future, 
without touching your hand or flesh. 

. You let two people of the opposite forces sleep together 
and they will both dream the same dream. This is the same 
method Mesmer advocated about steel and magnet. A 
double touch causes a stronger current, as mediums prove 
by people taking hold of hands at their seances or sittings, 
then she can better accomplish her own foolish theory of 
the unseen occult power. 

These human magnets and the opposite force that the 
other people utilize is similar to the method of the steel 
magnet. The method of single touch consists in stroking 
the bar to be magnetized. You must have double touch 
with separate magnets. Why is it a medium cannot tell 
some people their fortunes ? They declare it is because you 
do not believe in spirits. This is positively not true, because 
I never did believe in spirits, ghosts or occult power of any 
kind, and they have always told me the truth. I do not be- 
lieve in so-called science healing of spirit definition. All of 
this so-named healing power simply comes through the 
human magnetism and no unseen force. Why mediums can 



44 THE HEM 



not tell some people their fortune is because their opposite 
force weakens the medium's magnetization power and she 
cannot read them. This does not mean that the medium is 
the stronger, but that the opposite may have more or less 
force than she. 

The greatest of all magnetic feeling is the great nerve 
fibre and cells, and extends to the interior of the brain. 
These slender threads, called nerve fibres, are united in 
bundles and lie parallel to one another and are kept in place 
by delicate connective tissues. The scientific explanation of 
of this is that when two magnets (or bundles) are fastened 
together and kept parallel at a short distance apart by small 
pieces of wood, they are complete. Now the person to be 
magnetized must be touched by the greater, then the medi- 
um (or spiritualist) with the other force will be magnetized 
together. How easy this medium theory is explained by 
this self-magnetization of the medium and how easily it is 
seen to react on the magnetization of the other force and 
strenthen it. 

This foolish practice of a circle or seance of a spiritual- 
istic circle is so easily explained. When all the people, in the 
room form a close magnetic circle, called circular touch, then 
they are all ready to be mesmerized by the medium. They 
are now in a peculiar nerve fibre condition, which designates 
the peculiar nervous condition in which' the body and mind 
of an individual can be influenced by a mysterious nerve 
force emanating from one person to control one or many 
persons. 

We are full of galvanic batteries; no one has yet 
discovered how powerful we are. Many have so nearly 



THEOREM 45 



arrived at the truth, but when they had almost discover 
it, they fell into the common error— they, especially, had 
received supernatural power. 

It is nothing but human force that causes all of these 
unseen and mysterious sights, and I can prove it to all right 
thinking people. A medium will not allow two people in 
the room while telling the fortune of either. Now, if she 
communicated with a spirit, surely that spirit could tell the 
fortune of any one person with the room full. A spirit or 
soul maks no mistake, but a human magnet in magnetizing 
a number of persons and sending or receiving messages 
through her ibre force is weakened by this defect. Do you 
not see, Mr. Shaw, how simple it all is to be deceived? No, 
the spirits of heaven cannot communicate with the living. 
If this was true what terrible sorrow heaven would be full 
of. No, only God is allowed that privilege. God does not 
allow spirits of the dead to see us in this world or communi- 
cate with us. 

I asked a medium once at a sitting what heaven was 
like. I received a scowl of the face and she replied, "that is 
a mystery the spirits could not tell." Ah, no, because it is 
through a natural human telephone from myself she received 
her message, and the message was transmitted by connect- 
ing the wires (hands) from my hands (ihe sender) to her 
hands (the receiver). Why mediums go astray in some peo- 
ple's fortune is that the condition of the nerve fibre, as it is 
full of nervous impulses, the batteries will be sent to por- 
tions of the body for which they were not intended. There- 
fore the medium gets puzzled and cannot tell you anything 
—just as the telephone messages go astray if the wires are 
crossed. 



46 THEOREM 



Why is the first sitting lacking in interest? Because 
the magnet and forces have not gotten to working in perfect 
harmony. There has to be more people with the magnet 
force than the people to be magnetized. 

Why is it that all Christian Science people are not heal- 
ers? They ought to be if so-called Christian Science is true. 
The simple reason is the fact that they are not all magnets. 
She reacts and heals the magnetization of the sick and 
strengthens them. 

If we only knew and understood that we are living gal- 
vanic batteries and the stronger the current we possess the 
more wonderful power we have to demonstrate these so 
called wonderful phenomenas of a foolish people that have 
this power and do not understand and they in ignorance 
call it unseen ethereal spirits. Where is our boasted knowl- 
edge and wisdom of today? 

Different kinds of wood have certain forces, also stones 
and everything made by God. How weak we are. 1 heard 
a man tell this story: He said he went walking one day and 
had a cane in his hand. He passed an old skull and placed 
the cane in the skull and later as he entered his home 
his wife met him and said: "Ralph, throw that cane away, 
you have had it in a skull." He thought she had some occult 
power to be able to discern this. How simple to explain. The 
wood in the cane had received a force from the skull and 
emanated from the cane to his hand and transmitted the 
message to her. There is no cause without effect. 

There is nothing astonishing in what I read about 
spiritualism any more. I can explain it all. God made the 
earth and all thereon and then He made man to rind out and 



THEOREM 47 

discover the cause of all earthly things, but not to enter into 
His kingdom for the revelation. 

The nerve fibres in the human body are the magnets, 
which, for the most part lie parallel to one another, and are 
kept in place by delicate connective tissues. This nerve 
fibre is connected to the brain and spinal cord. This is 
positively true of the magnets. They are kept a small dis- 
tance apart by pieces of wood and this perfected, is just as 
the human magnet is perfected by the nerve fibres. • 

There is a man in Wisconsin— not a physician — a healer 
whom everyone thinks is supernatural, and he heals nearly 
all diseases. This is so easily explained. He has the patient 
sit down on a chair, goes behind you, places his hands (mag- 
nets) on the fibre nerve or switchboard where he is to receive 
the message of the person's disorder and disease. It is 
sometimes called the sympathetic nerve because it is the 
head of all nerves and receives all the connected nerves and 
their messages, as they all send out messages to one another. 
When the healer (or magnet) places his hands on the sensory 
nerves the impressions to the healer's fingers and the trans- 
mitter from the patient is thus carried to the brain of the 
healer and he, without any doubt', tells you the exact loca- 
tion and trouble of your diseased body, and locates the 
disease exactly — as the nerves make no mistake in transmit- 
ting their wonderful knowledge. Where is your unseen and 
foolish spiritualistic occult power here? 

Another patient went there with eight dollars in his 
purse. When the healer had finished examining him, the 
patient said: "lam a poor man, and cannot pay you any- 



48 THEOREM 



thing." The heaier replied: "What are you going to do 
with those eight dollars in your pocket?" These illustra- 
tions are true. 

You understand the patient did not realize that he was 
a living telephone and that the healer had his hands on his 
switchboard — and it would tell the truth in spite of himself 
How simple to understand! 

And foolish men are going across the waters to find 
knowledge of foolishness when they have the simple 
"switchboard" that will reveal all of the truth to them for 
only the asking. 

You ask me how a spiritualist or medium can tell the 
future? Because the nerve fibre or sympathetic nerve or 
cells are very sensitive and the medium— so erroneously 
named— self-mesmerizes herself and the deeper sleep or false 
trance she enters into, the better she can control or draw the 
peculiar nerve force permeated by the opposite person, and 
the message is transmitted from the medium holding your 
hand. She, in her trance, cannot send a message; but you 
are the sender and she the receiver. 

Thus the nerve magnet of the so-called medium draws 
the reflection of your whole past, present and future. This 
is why a person cannot tell his or her own fortune. This is 
positively the only revelation of spiritualism to be found 
and the action of a magnet upon steel or certain metals 
proves my discovery to be true, as the comparison of the two 
will substantiate my assertions. 

Persons having more or stronger electrical currents 
generated in them are better mediums and their predictions 
are truer than those having weaker currents. 



THEOREM 49 



Mr. Messmer came nearer to solving spiritualism than 
any other man on earth, past or present, but he did not 
understand these mental visions and hearing; he gave up his 
sensible human investigation and returned to the foolishness 
of claiming some occult unseen force resided in himself and 
thought he could influence others with his divine power; but 
alas! He failed. If he had only listened to God and not 
have tried to deify himself he would have soon, with his 
other knowledge, proved that he w 7 as a living magnet, a 
wireless telegraphy, drawing others. 

Here is a spiritualist story: A mother dying, and the 
very moment the breath leaves her earthly body— her son in 
another part of the world has a mental vision of her. Now, 
the spiritualists and so-called New Thought people will de- 
clare it was her soul the son saw. It was not. It was sim- 
ply her human magnetization reacting on her son. She was 
in a very peculiar nervous condition of mind and this mys- 
terious force (magnet) emanated from her, as she was think- 
ing with her dying mind of her son, and the magnetic force 
was strong enough to compel her son to have a mental vision 
of her at the same time. But this did not affect any of his 
bodily senses. There is nothing mysterious about the so 
named spiritualism and unseen forces or spirits. Name it 
correctly: Magnetized and magnetizing. 

The power of one mind influencing another at a great 
distance denies the spiritualist belief and proves this discov- 
ery to be true. 

The cure of all so-called healers is so simply solved un- 
der this head of Truth Revealed. These people surely are 
not trying to discover this easy truth— under the name of 
Science, they are being deceived by people who are as foolish 



50 THEOREM 



themselves. They truly think they are wonders and doing a 
great work for the world. 

The pagans themselves had something like this; they 
also claimed occult power and vision and deceived the foolish 
people. Some people could cure just by the touch of the 
hand and the sick received healing virtue from them. Some 
could throw others into a deep sleep. Some in their own 
blindness could not understand and named it "Animal Mag- 
netism" when it is magnetic power, or galvanic batteries, the 
greatest healer known to mankind today; but these foolish 
people claimed to communicate with unseen spirits to receive 
this power and declared it was supernatural. When it is so 
easy to understand this theory and it can prove itself, Why 
stay in ignorance? 

In Luke 6-19 the Bible declares: "And the whole 
multitude sought to touch Him; for there went vir- 
tue out of Him, and healed them all." But instead of 
this being a human battery or magnet Christ was sending 
out spiritual healing power to prove His divinity and to save 
us all. 

The human race is retrograding into old mythology 
darkness and unbelief in naming ourselves "undeveloped 
gods," that w T e have the power to draw spirits from heaven 
to earth and deal in phenomenas of a marvelous kind on 
mysteries, and last, but not least, supernatural god, or power 
exercised by one person over another. No, each one of these 
beliefs are necessary to lead us into the true light of sense 
and not ocult force. It is simply magnetic force in some 
stronger than others by which the stronger influences the 
weaker force, as it affects the leading nerve of the body. 
Some so called healers have unconsciously and partially 



THEOREM 51 



revealed the truth, we are all mirrors reflecting to the mag- 
net our lives in the past, present and future. There posi- 
tively is no occult cause for any of these demonstrations of 
Eusapia— the simple explanation is, she is a wonderful mag~ 
net and the foolish people have made her deceive herself, 
and as Mesmer did, she thinks she has some supernatural 
power, when it is only human power of which we all have 
more or less. God declares: "But in vain they do worship 
teaching for doctrine the commandments of men." — Matt. 
16-9. 

How true and sad this is! How we seek for God and 
Truth every way man can devise, except to obey God, and 
He positively declares if we accept Him all knowledge 
shall be added unto us. 

These foolish seances are so easily explained under this 
theory and also the appearances of the erroneously named 
"astral" body and the foolishly named "mediumistic chain," 
and the etheric hands or bodies produced by a medium are 
not etheric but are produced by the mirror force of the com- 
bined body and mind of the people's magnetization and re- 
flected before our vision, just the same as we draw a living 
person before us that is in another part of the world; and I 
can prove this by actual experience and can prove this theory 
is correct in every principle, not one link missing. Hence if 
we have a dead friend we can not draw him from the spirit 
heaven, but our electrical current reproduces his real image 
by our living magnetic force. 

I was once attending a spiritualist meeting and the me- 
dium claimed to be in a trance and people had left rings and 
a few other articles on a table for her to analyze the person 
to whom the rings belonged. In every case each article she 



52 THEOREM 



picked up I could tell to whom it belonged, and she could 
not; for when she opened her eyes she asked to whom they 
belonged. You see, I was sitting nearer the people than she 
and their message or possession leaped from them to me. 

Mr. Stead wrongly says: "I do not believe the dead de- 
part. Christ demands for us to take no man's interpreta- 
tion of any belief but to go direct to God and pray for light 
and we would receive it." Mr. Stead declares: "Recent 
scientific discoveries have rendered the hypothesis of com- 
munication between the living and so-named dead and much 
more thinkable by the average man than it was fifty years 
since." 

Why, Mr. Stead, where do you receive such foolish be- 
lief ? It is not knowledge. You are only retrospecting the 
old pagan mythology of the darkened past, who believed and 
dealt in this same superstition of so-named occult sight hun- 
dreds of years before Christ came to give those blind people 
sight and they rejected his knowledge just as you are doing, 
for man's foolish belief or ignorance. 

The Yedas, the Sanskrit suggest all of these erroneous, 
so-called occult powers. The queer question today is that 
of all the so-calied smart scientific men, instead of receiving 
the Truth from the real magnetic forces or nerve messages 
they are receiving every day to reveal the truth to their 
darkened minds, they in their ignorance are attributing it to 
a heavenly element, when it is only A. B. C. to learn. 

The foolish question, "Do the Dead Return?" When 
God declares NOT and His word is sufficient, no matter how 
real or true a thing seems. If God declares it can not be, 
then it is time to climb up to knowledge. God's way, not 
man's. Fifty years ago man had more sense, but not so 



THEOREM 53 



much of the Satanic knowledge of today, under the cloak of 
knowledge. God declares there is no knowledge in the grave 
and Christ delares in the last days knowledge shall vanish 
away, the wisdom of wise men shall perish, and their turn- 
ing things upside down shall be esteemed as the potter's 
clay; they have no understanding and the Truth shall be 
revealed unto babes" (the simple). I have never thought 
it a wonderful thing to talk to friends a hundred miles apart 
and before I ever heard of the wireless telegraphy, I knew 
that somehow we would some day be able to communicate 
with friends at a distance, as I had, and this proves that 
nothing is supernatural as he thinks. People are searching 
for false gods in Psychiatry Universities and are drifting 
farther from God than in the beginning. If they would for- 
sake human agency and desire and seek God first, He will 
reveal all the other knowledge they wish to find out. 

The more your nerves get on edge— as the common say- 
iug is— the stronger this magnetic force is in you and you 
are better able to exhibit more phenomena. There is no 
such thing as hallucination; these visions are real, as the 
magnet compels the opposite force to reflect the inner self 
as unto a mirror. 

This proves that a medium can compel the opposite 
force to every whim and theory she may advocate. Of course, 
it is not a surprise that such phenomeuas have caused won- 
der and are the basis of rank foolish superstition of people; 
but I am astonished that no wise man has yet discovered 
this simple and easy explanation of spiritualism. 

When it is all gathered together, how foolish it seems 
that the so-named medical men have never discovered the 
basis of their practice— they surely have turned their theory 



54 THEOREM 



upside down, and if they will investigate their own message 
and read their own switchboard with a clearer vision, and 
understand the messages that are transmitted to them, they 
will revolutionize the medical science, and bring the wonder- 
ful healing cup to the diseased race. It is nothing but ha- 
manity unmasking the Truth of our bodies or nerve force 
and the part we have to occupy in the universe. There will 
not be as many deaths by ignorance as now; all a physician 
will need to do with a patient is to place his hands on the 
human switchboard on the great nerve center and receive 
the exact and truthful message it sends to him; and it tells 
him the exact place and part diseased, instead of filling you 
full of the drug poison and at last cannot tell you the nature 
of the disease. 

Is not this sufficient proof to prove to all fair minded 
and good sense research people that this article has produced 
an intense perfect solution of this foolish clairvoyance busi- 
ness, which proves a peculiar force nerve condition in which 
the telegraphic messages of one can influence another ? 

Trusting you will publish this article so all can read and 
investigate to their own good and for the knowledge of the 
whole world or race, I remain 

Yours sincerely, 

May Barnard VViltse. 



THEOREM 55 



X. 



^hvCox s ^^pl§ 



The American Monthly Review of Reviews 
Albert Shaw, Editor 

New York, January 5, 1909. 
Mrs. May Barnard Wiltse, 

New Rockford, N. D. 
Dear Madam: 

Your manuscript entitled "Teleology of Spirit- 
ualism" is interesting, but does not happen to be in our line. 
It would be better adapted to some periodical devoted to 
the subject of spiritualism. Perhaps some popular magazine 
would also find it of interest. We are sending the manu- 
script back to you herewith, so that you may use it else- 
where. We thank you for allowing us to see it. 
Yours very truly, 
Editorial Department, Review of Reviews. 
Die. W. M. 



56 



SUB-CONSCIOUS 



^nb~QLixnsziixns 




UB-C0jS t SC10 US means: 1. Partially or im- 
perfectly conscious. 2. Occurring without 
attendant consciousness. Diet. (By some 
said to be the state of mind). This is errone- 
ous, as it is the state of the nerve impulses, or 
nerve force. This is negative to the nerve 
fibre and when one is asleep it has a peculiar power trans- 
mitting our thoughts to the fibre nerves. These little im- 
pulses, when aroused, produce the various motions, sensa- 
tions and functions incident to the body; for instance, a 
somnambulate or a somniloquist. 

The nerve fibres are asleep at night and the negatives are 
doing their sub conscious work. When a new moon is 
thought to be discovered the wise men discover it is merely 
an old one whose existence has been in the past overlooked. 
People are making such a cry of knowledge over something 
new in our human bodies and, alas, discover it is the same 



S UB-COJfSCIO US 57 

old body, and sub-conscious is simply a condition of the 
nerves that have been overlooked by these wise psychologi- 
cal so-called researchers, and we must not take the so- 
called philosophical conclusions that they think they 
have reached at last— we must ascertain facts before they 
will have a true physehologieal import. 

In the first place the writer will prove the solution of 
sub conscious so called mind is only a negative force leading 
or going into the nerve fibre (positive) and that the positive 
attracts the negative and it transmits itself to the nerve 
fibre. Jf a man goes to sleep at night with the firm deter- 
mination to wake up at 4 o'clock in the morning the great 
switchboard has telephoned this all over the body and in his 
sleep the little negatives are resending the messages back to 
the head or switchboard there, to the brain, and it seems as 
though something actually told him to wake up at that time. 
This being true, we are far more likely to reach the truth if 
we openly acknowledge this fact, and leave these endless 
so cailed spiritualism rappings and phenomenas of unseen 
spirits come out of the sensational depths with their so- 
claimed startling agitations into the coNSCiouSNP:ssof facts 
and reasons of God's truth, lladium is another revelation 
of God's to a woman to find out something more about this 
wonderful network of electrical currents and nerves through 
every living body of mankind of which this universe is also 
full of another kind of currents, not discovered yet by man. 
The probl< m of life is no different than it was before the 
discovery of radium. It has only dropped another drop of 
water in the mighty ocean of human knowledge. 

The "Moderna" (Rome) brings home in a startling man- 
ner the only true development of medicine as a true science 



58 SUB-CONSCIOUS 

The Review of Reviews quotes this from a noted medi- 
cal man: "Nothing, however, is more surprising than 
the blind belief in these absurd remedies of men, otherwise 
intelligent, whose names have come down to posterity as 
giants of the intellect. They believed that all parts of the 
human body were thought to possess great medical powers." 

How strange the human race is if a man finds one in 
vestigator making one mistake — which every one. of them 
do. They cast their revelations from them as though they 
were scorpions and nothing true. In all kinds of investiga 
tion, never was it given for one man to reveal all. Think 
how many minds and men discovered and perfected electric- 
ity so far as it has been discovered. Look at the same in 
medical works and investigations, made by many men and 
minds. These doctors of the so-called Dark Ages were right 
and they were not ignorant nor were they behind in ignor- 
ance of this Dark Age or wrongly named "Enlightened 
Age." Any doctor who scorns and calls them ridiculous in 
their profession and that the "Enlightened Medical Frofes 
sion" of today is far ahead of them in knowledge, is to be 
proven before we will believe. These wonderful doctors did 
discover a great truth that the medical men of today have 
forgotten — that the human body is a possessor of great 
medical powers and the day is dawning that the very 
thing that the medical fraternity of today sneered at and 
scorned and did not heed is the ONE link in the chain that 
they lacked to perfect their profession and research. I be- 
lieve every new theory has a great deal more of truth than 
falseness in it, when it is pertaining to our bodies and medi- 
cal discoveries. If we could only understand the right way 
of looking at every investigator's work and belief and be 



S UB- COjYSCIO US 59 

able to detect both truth and error in them. In all of the 
writer's research of pagan history they had the same fault as 
we have in political as well as spiritual life —to be exposed 
to the subtle danger of making an important thought on 
theory so interesting that the greater or more significant 
matter is overlooked. God also declared men would do this 
and His truth always stands. 

In our sensational craze after the unreal we have forgot- 
ten this Temple God gave us to investigate and acquaint 
ourselves of its various forms of human power possessed by 
it, so we can recognize the ailments at a glance or touch of 
the hand, and to find out the means and methods to help 
these ailments. How much further have the medical re- 
searchers gone into the truth than their pagan brothers? 
No, they have retrograded into the darkness of exalted 
knowledge. 

We must be equally familiar with the perfect nerve 
force as with the negative, or imperfect, or in other words 
the Sub Conscious mind of error. 

These Christian and Mental Science and all the others 
have a great deal to do with the sub-conscious mind, on 
rightly named nerves. Theorem of spiritualism is the first 
principle for medical men to discover them. All else will 
seem easy, and what has been dark to them in the past will 
seem very strange to them that they did not discover it be- 
fore. 

If men and women would let God's handiwork alone and 
not try to be divine and enter His kingdom to find out what 
He is; what our souls look like; the nature, properties and 
how it operates! Man can search and search this unsearch- 
able soul until eternity because God declares we can search 



60 S UB-CONSCIO US 

just so far in the human kingdom, then lie will refuse us 
to His sanctuary and shut off all communications; but so 
long as we search out the limited power He has given us, 
He declares if we ask Kim He will help us. 

We know no more today about psychogenesis than did 
the pagans hundreds of years before Christ, when they were 
without the great and wonderful knowiedge of the spirit 
that God has given us, and we are just as great pagans today 
as they. This searching for a sub-conscious soul by certain 
insanity people, called psychological research, (psychological 
means treating the insane or to study a treatise on the ques- 
tion of the soul). When a man or woman writes and claims 
to understand about the mind or soul or conscious subject, 
they have retrograded back into obscurity of ignorance 
worse than the darkest of Egyptian darkness of old mythol- 
ogy days, and they are simply retrospecting in a pagan look 
ing glass and see their reflection in the glass. 

Why is it a man can control a horse or some other beast ? 
Not because that beast has a soul. No, it is because he con 
trols him with the same power that if you move a medium's 
hand in a certain direction you will hear a rapping or sound. 
A man is positive, and a horse has negative or sub-conscious 
nerves, as a horse has no mind or soul. God declares this. I 
do not care what man declares; when God declares a truth 
I believe Bim above the whole world. 

The voice of the man commanding the horse— the elec- 
trical currents are sent in vibrations to the nerves of the 
horse or are transmitted to the receiver and the horse does 
as he is told. The flow of electrcity will always be be- 
tween the man and horse, because there is w T here there is a 
difference of potential power— the man concentrates his eiec- 



SUB-CONSCIOUS 61 

trical currents all on this one point and they are sent out 
from the main body of the conductor (man). If people 
would search out God's wonderful truth of electricity and 
magnetization of one body over another, a foolish man 
would nut have to travel to Africa to find if monkeys can 
talk. They had better search at home to rind the man 
monkey— electrical nerves. This will explain all of the other 
blindness of man's limited power over the beasts of the field 
and birds of the air and measure of man's power without 
going to Africa to find it. 

It seems as though man's thought or mind is capable of 
holding no more than one diversion or part of anything. 
These people that deal in sub-conscious and psychology or 
so called pagan suggestive pcychology and personal magnet- 
ism, how to heal by magnetic, mental and absent methods, 
are all true and still the idea here is a swindler of the worst 
sort. Every one of these are all explained with the two 
words, nerve center, or the human telephone center, receiv- 
ing messages from one quarter and sending out messages to 
another, or transmitting a message received from one place 
to another. Psychology is not the so called science of mind 
or phenomena of the soul. It positively does not treat of 
the mind but does treat of the phenomena of matter or elec- 
tricity of the human magnetism over the animal kingdom. 
All we must have is some human body or mind or a consci- 
ous of a soul. All of the boasted knowledge of a sub-con- 
scious mind is doomed to a terrible collapse under the proven 
principles and facts of nerve force. VVe are only babes in 
this knowledge of this great study and revelation of the 
temple God gave us to study and the analysis of our body 
and the race in its ignorance and conceit of being civilized 



62 S UB-COJVSCIO US 

forgot civilization in their search for the truth. No modern 
writer understands sub-consciousness as well as did the 
Greek pagans. We are so confined to our own conceit and 
narrow scope of vision that we can not understand any other 
theory or analysis from ours. That there is no spiritual sub- 
stance is proven by every principle of sense on a real scien- 
tific exposition of what is positively known and verified by 
observation. Psychical life or doctrine is pertaining to every 
living thing, every creature feels, it is said, though it will 
never do any more, only the human race, man made in 
God's image and he made us to discriminate and to act with 
a definite purpose— to learn His works here on earth and 
have dominion over all the earth; over all the animal king- 
dom. How vague these professors talk of psychology and 
sub-consciousness and see the doubts they all try to under- 
stand blindly and lead other blind ones with them. Sub- 
conscious may be partially psychophysics in an imperfectly 
conscious condition. It positively is not a state of mind. 
It is by proof and actual investigation a state of nerve force 
and the true name is sub contrary in an inferior degree. For 
instance when we sleep at night we are in an inferior degree 
to the wakeful hours of the day. Our nerves are inferior to 
our nerve magnetic force of the day. These nerve forces 
are positively divided into two particular propositions, one 
is affirmative and the other negative. The affirmative 
is the cartex— the external is convoluted layers of the brain 
and is called nerve cells, intermingled with connective tis- 
sues and small nerve fibres. Its function is to receive ner- 
vous impressions, to originate and impart nervous force or 
impulses, and also to transmit them from one cell to an- 
other. 



SUB-CONSCIOUS 



The negative or inhibitory which checks the action of 
certain organs are negative, it's whole nerve fibres and 
cells— the sole function of nerves and nerve fibre is to con- 
vey nervous impulses. This sub contrary (erroneously called 
sub-conscious) can not be false, for the temple that God 
made can not lie nor deceive. Applying all of these so- 
called human science of so-called spiritualism, astrology, 
omens, signs, mysteries of spirits, suggession of psychology, 
etc., is the same to the nerve force as affirmative and nega- 
tive is to the nerves in the human body, and they positively 
do co exist in the same substance or nerve power. 

If these people w r ould give more of their valuable time 
searching and seeking God's way to knowledge, the medical 
staff today would have known exactly how to locate any 
disease known to mankind today simply by placing their 
hands on the back of the neck on the switchboard— as the 
human nerves possess a peculiar nervous telegraphic mes- 
sage which enables each doctor to perform and analyze any 
disease known to all the medical sciences and all the hidden 
knowledge from Dr. Gilbert (of Colchester, who may be con- 
sidered as the founder of the real science of electricity), up 
to the present time, is made possible now through this dis- 
covery of the power of the magnetization of the human 
nerves, or nervous telegraphy, through which all impressions 
are positively given to them correctly and they make no 
mistake. 

In Pierre, S, D., last July, a young woman made a novel 
defense when the government asked her as to her rights of 
a homestead. 

A young lady came to Dakota and filed on a homestead 
and at the end of the required legal time of residence she 



64 S UB-CONSCIO US 

offered final proof on the tract. Before the patent was is- 
sued a special agent looked over the claim and by inquiry 
found that most of the time of alleged residence had been 
spent as a teacher at Kokoma. On the agent's report the 
patent was held up and the youug woman called upon to 
explain. 

What do you think her defense was? She had been 
reading the trashy mess that the United States government 
allows to be cast around the country to be read as great 
knowledge and wisdom for all who will believe. 

This foolish girl put up for the defense that her spirit 
or dual personality that she possessed held her claim down 
while in body she was teaching school in Indiana, and that 
she is entitled to the claim as her spirit was there all the 
time. She cited her authority, of Mabatmas and other pagan 
seers or mystics. God has promised us in the last day sor- 
cerers; that this time will be noted for its multitude of the 
number of sorcerers and for the great abundance of its en- 
chantments. 

For their wisdom and knowledge has perverted them, 
and mischief shall fall upon them, and they shall not be able 
to put it off. 

This insane girl who is just as insane as any insane per- 
son in the mad house, is just as mad as they, only her dual 
personality is her spirit that possesses her in her blind ig- 
norance, Does God teach us that we are possessed of more 
than one spirit? JS T o! and how in all sense are we going to 
live and have that spirit away from the body ? 

If she would only uncross the wires at the telephone 
center — or back of her neck, her telephone dual person- 
ality would disappear and allow the conducting portion to be 



SUB-CONSCIOUS 65 

sent where they were intended. If this foolish girl can con- 
vince the government authorities this is true, I do not 
believe in a year you could find a flesh and blood resident in 
this country of blizzards, coyotes and jack rabbits. What a 
great spiritual awakening we would have if this be 
true. 

When we leave this great earthly kingdom that God has 
given us to investigate and subdue and have dominion over 
everything in the air, sea, and all creeping things upon the 
earth— and God blessed it all and told man to take posses- 
sion and have dominion over it all and he would bless us. 
Have they done this ? No, they forgot it all and even this 
human temple in which the soul dwells; they have forgotten 
in their haste to seek after a false god (soul) to enter into a 
divine kingdom. God gave us this temple to discover great 
secrets concealed within its "holy of holies," but the so-called 
psychic people, searching for the lost soul of truth, have 
forgotten the temple they would investigate with God's 
command, and they erroneously name it psychic. 

If they would call themselves aphorismers— as they are 
lovers of sophistry; those who practice sophistry; they are 
but lovers of fallacious arguments or false reasoning. This 
is what these psychical people truly are. They talk about 
a second self, and where are they today? Standing at a 
closed door! God makes the wind blow — we cannot see it; 
we can feel it, but if we put our hands out we cannot feel 
anything tangible. We know the wind is here; we do not 
know from whence it comes nor where it goes. 

We do know we have a soul made in the image of a 
just God. We know w T e have *a dictator, governed by a 



66 SUB-CONSCIOUS 

strict God in regard to His rules of right or wrong. We 
know we have the faculty or power of knowing one's own 
thoughts or mental operations, thus man is a conscious 
being— above an animal. No man dare say an animal 
has a soul, because the animal proves the falseness of his 
foolish assertion. What have we discovered in this great 
temple in the last thousand years? Nothing; because we 
have tried to be a god, aJvvays, instead of simple, intelligent 
beings. 

And now God has closed the door on science and cursed 
man's work, but not man; He is calling for us to open the 
door and try again to seek for the lost. We are cursed with 
the greatest ignorance on the face of the earth for our sin in 
forgetting God's law to eat of every tree of man's knowledge; 
He commands us to freely eat, but not of the tree of God's 
kingdom. "Thou shalt not eat of it," for that day they 
shall surely die of ignorance and their eyes shall be closed 
to every truth. 

God declares and even all pagan writers declare that 
God never lies. 

Some psychologists claim that psychology IS the soul; 
others, that it is the science of the phenomena of mind. 
Who is right? How much do these so-called boasted psy- 
chic teachers know? Nothing; hundreds of years before 
Christ, the Greeks claim, they also knew all about the soul, 
and claimed to have all knowledge, or more than God. They 
at last denied a God and claimed they were divine and had 
full knowledge of the soul— more than God. Did they? 
What did God do? He closed the door and they became a 
lost people. For thousands of years since Christ men forget 



SUB-CONSCIOUS 67 

Christ, the foundation of all knowledge and the end of all 
knowledge. Men are forgetting God and Christ in this fool- 
ish searching for the soul, and they cannot, by the example 
of the foolish Adam, who ate of the apple, understand by 
past history of man that no man has ever found the soul and 
never will, and they are floundering still in the slough of 
ignorance. They are in just so much ignorance as the 
Greeks were before Christ. God has always kept that door 
closed and no matter how much it is lectured upon, no mat- 
ter how much it is investigated, no matter how much is 
written about the soul, the door is closed and always will 
stay closed, now and forever. 

These babes (self styled psychologists), wandering 
around in the abyss of ignorance, declare they have the 
analysis of mind, and still in the same article they declare 
sub consciousness is "The doctrine, as might be expected, 
derives its plausibility partly from the vagueness of psycho- 
logical terminology ." Queer contradiction, is it not ? By 
this we positively understand and know they have not the 
first element or principle of the true definition of soul. 

1. What is mind? No one can tell. We do know we 
have a brain or something that thinks, but we are no nearer 
the truth than the Greeks were; after thousands of years 
searching and researching, whether that mind is the soul, or 
of what that mind is composed. 2. Who makes that mind 
think ? 3. From whence do those thoughts come ? They 
come from the electrical currents in the human cortex 
(switchboard). I know something; I feel something; I do 
something; but where is the crank that makes the wheel 
go round? The door is closed now; no one can tell with all 



68 S UB-CONSCIO US 

of his boasted research and knowledge what mind is even 
composed of. The vagueness of man's knowledge of mind 
is so minute it can hardly be discovered or even a thought 
of truth, or accepted as one particle of the beginning of any 
research of the beginning of truth. This is not a beginning 
of man's knowledge in a human sense, or even the beginning 
of entering God's kingdom. 

"Thorns and thistles shall they bring forth but the truth 

Of SOUl, NEVER." 

What is electricity? JNo one can tell, but we know that 
electricity is made— created by a collected state of diffusion 
through other matter by which it is attracted. Of what is 
this matter composed? What is the attraction? What is 
the collection? Here is the mystery God commands us to 
discover. We have a mind, and we must use that mind to 
discover electricity, and to have dominion over the elements 
of the air (electricity), but He declares at the same time we 
must never know what electricity is; where it comes 
from; what it is composed of, and many other mysteries of 
His kingdom, because then we would be gods and He de- 
clares He is the only one God and He is a jealous God and 
will not have any other before Him, "the Lord of Heaven 
and Earth." We are lords only of earth but not not heaven 
and where would we have been today if we had listened to 
God's voice? We would have controlled all animals; we 
could have controlled the air; we could have had the great- 
est human knowledge that man is heir to, but the door is 
closed and over the door in great letters of fire is emblazoned 
the word "Ignorance." 



SUB-CONSCIOUS 69 

Men are leaving knowledge behind and claiming to 
throw light on the unseen soul or sub-consciousness, and 
trying to leave their earthly kingdom, given to man in which 
to progress, for the kingdom of God, where we know through 
all ages it will forever remain a mystery to man, until his 
resurrection. Why waste our lives searching for the un- 
known and meet failure at the end, as the Greeks and 
Romans did, when we can conquor all if we only seek for 
it? 

If we desire knowledge of God's heavenly kingdom in 
this way, God will surely take all knowledge from us. 
Wise men declare to us the knowledge of God is easy to un- 
derstand; it is to make us gods. And they declare that the 
right knowledge is u gropers in darkness" and that we do 
not understand the soul. Why should we, when they them- 
selves declare their boasted knowledge is very vague and 
they can not find the soul? God declares there is no knowl- 
edge with the dead or communication with earthly beings, 
and if we listen to Him our knowledge shall be diminished 
and the earth shall be destroyed for the lack of knowledge. 

These people claim they have all knowledge of the 
soul. "Woe unto you lawyers; wise men (psychic teachers), 
for ye have taken away the key of knowledge; ye entered 
not in yourselves, and them that were entering ye hindered." 
Luke 11 52. 



THEOREM 



71 



€kzixxttn t xtx CdbdLxgg ixi ^ipkilnvtltem 



AUTHOR'S NOTE— Mr. Gilman Hall, one of the editors of "Every- 
body's," sailed for Europe last May on a vacation. In his party of seven, 
was his brother-in-law, Dr. Herbert R. Moody, associate professor of 
chemistry in the College of the City of New York. Mr. Hall sought out 
Filippo Botozzi, professor of biology in the university of Naples, and says: 
"In our efforts to secure photographs to ilustrate Mr. Garland's series, 
'The Shadow World,' the offer of a seance with Madam Paladino came 
unexpectedly and was gladly accepted." Find below some of the reports 
of these so-called educated men; 



LD you ever hear of the lost mine and buried 
treasure in Death's Valley, California, and 
how wise men— so-called— suffer much hard- 
ships to seek the treasure and prattle of foolish 
men, planning and hoping for the turn of the 
tide to unearth this hidden wealth — for what ? 
"Fools die for the want of wisdom." The foolish men go 
away across the water to find the treasure of magnetic 
knowledge under the false cloak of spiritualism and seances. 



1 jh 1 





72 THEOREM 



Franklin had wisdom enough to stay at home and use the 
brain and helpers (magnets) God gave him with which to 
discover electricity. In 1750, he drew up his true statement 
in which he showed that all the general phenomena and ef- 
fects which were produced by electricity, had their copies or 
counterparts. When Franklin tried his experiments or tests 
with the kite, a cloud passed without any electrical indica- 
tions and he began to despair of success. He noticed the 
loose twine standing out every way, and found them to be 
attracted by the approach of his finger. The suspended key 
gave a spark upon the application of his knuckle. After 
further investigation he found the clouds were sometimes 
positively and sometimes negatively electrified. 

These foolish men claim that one of the most remark- 
able phenomenas has occurred in the history of spiritualism 

— "A TABLE BREAKS ITSELF INTO PIECES!" This table is 

described as a strong table of whitewood, weighing about 
seventeen pounds. When it seemed to quiet down for a 
moment, Dr. Arullani, who was especially skeptical, ap- 
proached it to examine it closely, but the piece of furniture, 
moving violently toward him, repulsed him. A moment 
later, the medium (Eusapia) the switchboard of the roomfull 
of people, announced quietly, "I am going to break the 
table." This is so simple to explain, under the head of 
human magnetical science. During these seances there is 
not only the magnetic power, but also electro-motive force. 
This Eusapia is an electro- magnetic instrument around 
which all others coil. The influence of electricity on the 
human body and mind and inanimate objects is so great no 
man will ever understand. This table moving toward Di\ 



THEOREM 73 



Arullani does not prove any spirit or supernatural power, 
simply the magnetic power or force attracting the wood or 
table, and these foolish men declare they are "persuaded of 
the authenticity of the phenomena." The medium had the 
power of conveying electricity from her body and the others 
or conducting their magnetic matter to the table, thus elec- 
trifying and causing it to break to pieces. If these men of 
knowledge had only researched a little farther w r hen they 
said "the action of the table seemed like that of a miniature 
flash of lightning, the sound was as of rending wood — a 
splitting, tearing sound!" But they simply turn aside knowl- 
edge and cry for the moon. They continue: "We spent 
some time trying to persuade the 'spirit 1 to bring a fan wiiich 
lay on the pedestal, but w r e failed, utterly." Yes! Ask any- 
thing from the magnetizing force and you will receive 
silence. 

If any of these notable men will listen when lightning 
strikes a house, they will hear these same mysterious hair 
or wood splitting sounds. These men declare that the mad- 
am asked them to set their minds on any task to be accom- 
plished and they did— all talking at the same time. They 
all called out that the chair be lifted. The noise became a 
veritable babel. (This from dignified, sensible, smart men 
and women? If Paladino was communicating with a spirit, 
and a spirit must be all powerful, then why need the help of 
human magnets?) Paiadino's (the medium) hands worked 
convulsively— though held by theirs. Yes, charged with all 
of the connecting wires from the senders (people) to the re- 
ceiver (Paladino), she received the sensory motion impulses 
from all of these people and nerve center. After getting all 
of the sympathetic nerve fibre in motion, she was ready to 



74 THEOREM 



receive all of the nervous impressions, and it was for her to 
impart, to originate the impulses and transmit them from 
the human force to the table — if the electricity force was 
strong enough. After these little messages or connected 
wires got to working the table arose a foot from the Moor, 
giving the impression of a magnet's work. There, that is 
just what it was. Is it not strange how unconsciously the 
truth will creep in, no matter how we err, or deface God's 
knowledge of the truth. If these erring people declare it is 
the work of magnetization and in the same breath call on 
spirits of heaven, it is queer logic for men of universities 
and colleges, is it not? Why talk about trickery? There is 
no such word in God's revealed knowledge of human mag- 
netization. 

Now these people go on to say, as if the magnet's power 
had failed, the chair dropped to the floor and rocked back 
to its normal position. Twice, three times, four times we 
tried, bat the lifting power was not strong enough. What: 
the spirit was not strong enough? It must have been a 
weak spirit. Does this not prove to any fair mi d that these 
results of concentration of all minds is from a human agency 
and not of any ethereal spirit? 

"After a few moments, the chair came on to the table— 
and lay on its back. It seemed incredible. We made several 
efforts to will the chair to an upright position, but we did 
not succeed." "We." I thought it was spirits that was do- 
ing this, and now they declare it was "we." Mrs. Paladino 
here spoke to Professor Bottazzi in a half querulous voice 
and said the circle was a "poor one" and did not help her. 
The writer goes on to say that he realized this truth of her 
complaint. The circle was unwieldy in numbers. Where 



THEOREM 75 



are the boasted supernatural powers ? Even the medium 
claimed she could do nothing without the combined human 
magnetization of force, and these men still declare with 
truth revealed before them that they still believe in the so- 
called phenomena of spiritism, and some are a little nearer 
the truth w T hen they call it some unknown force in nature, 
but simply the known forces of electricity and magnetic 
powers of the human bodies. 

Living bodies are constantly forming complex substance 
from simpler ones. Thus the medium stores great energy 
and builds up her fake trade by the so called circles and then 
she reproduces, by which her mind commands such rap- 
pings, playing on closed instruments, and other natural 
manifestations of a human power through natural forces. 

"There was a pear-shaped light about six inches above 
the medium's head, one of the men iu the circle did not see 
the light, but every other member of the circle did: it looked 
like a faint electric light— just exactly what it was. At the 
same time Paladino (the medium's) face was illuminated. 
Her skin shone as though phosphorescent." 

Francis Hawksbee, in 1705, explained this better than I 
can. He named it "mercurial phosphorus." He proved that 
light could be produced by passing common air through 
mercury. The air rushing through the mercury blew it up 
against the side of the glass that held it, "appearing all 
around like a body of fire consisting of an abundance of 
glowing globules ," 

Why the writer did not see the light over the head of the 
medium was because she had not the power to convey 
enough electricity to him to permit his magnet to sympa- 



76 THEOREM 



thize with her conducting power or active fibre nerve at this 
time. We all know that certain people have the power to 
convey electricity from one body to another, while others 
have not. 1 have gone into a dark room, when a girl, and 
combed my hair, just to see the sparks fly. 

The professor took hold of the medium's hand and pro- 
duced sharp raps. He beat her hand toward the table, and a 
rap would come from under the table. These raps would 
always follow a movement of the linger. This foolish ex- 
hibition of povverof man over electrical currents that caused 
the rappings was very apparent; and now these foolish, so- 
named professors and Dr. Moody declare, after seeing these 
wonderful powers, that they can see no other alternative 
than acceptance of the phenomena. "Had the medium used 
trickery we should have been able to see it, for light was 
everywhere— on these points we all agreed. I asked Profes- 
sor liotazzi about the chances of fake. He had trained and 
so-called smart scientific men to help him. Many people 
had been present at the various seances; the phenomena had 
been established in utter finality. But they had led nowhere 
— he had reached only a 'circle' of phenomena. They had 
all come face to a blank wall! He was through for the pres- 
ent, anyway." 

Yes, it is a blank wall, and until eternity it will continue 
to be unless we throw aside this foolish effort to secure com- 
munication with God's spirits; just so sure we will always 
go just so far, then find a blank wall between God and man. 
It always has been and always will be the same. When we 
cast superstition aside and seek the truth, as Mesmer and 



THEOREM 



Franklin did, we will find a simple revelation of all these 
foolish, electrical raps, wonders and signs. 

After the demonstration, the medium seemed dazed and 
iu real distress. She looked old, and seamed and yellow. 
She seemed to have little strength left. Poor woman is as 
ignorant as the rest and thinks she has supernatural power, 
when it is proven beyond any doubt that she is particularly 
applicable to action of electrical and magnetical forces or 
actions. The medium, proving herself to be a galvanic bat- 
tery acting upon a compass needle in the table or other 
places, causes mysterious noises or sounds. A magnetic 
needle table placed near an electric current will advance in 
the positive direction of the current, and will always tend 
to move in the direction in which it is being carried. 

"It is a very important thing to observe that all kicks, 
noises, and movements were simultaneous with the move- 
ments of Paladino's fingers or muscles. Also, phenomena 
were preceded and accompanied by signs of hysteria, coughs 
and unusual noises. Paladino, much exhausted after sitting, 
had active nausea, and no strength to leave until twenty 
minutes after the end of the sitting." 

Notice, my dear readers and investigators, that every 
time the professor moved the medium's fingers toward the 
table there was a distinct knock from the table. If this was 
a spirit, why move her fingers to make the noise? It was 
nothing but the current of electricity hitting the table. No 
spirit to be found here. Why is it people have been blind 
all these hundreds of years and named this magnetic force 
or power so many foolish names, as Christian Science, Spir- 
itualism, Mental Healing, Divine Healing, and every foolish 
kind of healing that man can devise without God. 



78 THEOREM 



It is the same in religion— men and women are trying to 
elimb to heaven every way the devil ean devise and by every 
power he can give to man to be an adversary of God. He is 
prince and god of this world; he hinders the gospel and 
works lying wonders under this nonsensical superstition of 
spiritualism, and these poor, blind, so-called mediums are 
encouraged by these so-named smart, scienti. c investigators 
or researchers of the truth of spiritualism— when there is no 
fake and nothing spiritual to be revealed. They are simply 
revealing their true magnetization and the action of elec- 
trical currents generated in their bodies and capable of in- 
fluencing all around them. This clairvoyance that Paladino 
exhibited was not spiritual, but magnetic; she is only a pow- 
erful store of magnetic storage batteries and when she 
radiates that force so strong as to move tables, chairs, etc.,. 
and not human bodies, then she is so weak and has no 
strength left to leave the building where the seance was 
held. If all of this was from a spirit from the heavens why 
should it take her strength? If spirits do the w T ork why 
should it weaken her? Bit if you will name it "odylie 
force" the whole truth will be revealed, as it is a term given 
to a force of a mysterious character by which all of the fool- 
ish and so-called phenomenas of human magnetism can 
suFely be accounted for; and this yclept trance, when it is 
nothing more than self hypnotism; and the medium her- 
self declares to these foolish seekers for the truth that she 
ean do nothing without their being in a peculiar nervous 
condition, also; and their mind and magnetic body must y 
also, with hers, be in unison to be influenced by the ethereal 
spirit (human magnetic force) by clasping hands together to 
receive the magnetic power, or to get the electrical currents 



THEOREM 79 



generated to work in harmony with her (the medium) or 
receive the same mental production as she. I cannot under- 
stand why Mesmer did not leave the Evil One alone (power) 
and seek for the Truth as God revealed it so simply to him, 

Mr. Morely, Ph. D., says that when they sat with clasped 
hands an imperceptible tingling through their hands was 
felt— comparable to a feeble current. The table began to 
rear almost at once, at iirst with Paladino's hands on it, but- 
soon with no hand whatever touching it. Yes, Mr. Moody, 
why did you not continue with your slight knowledge, in- 
stead of writing this foolish article in "Everybody's" that it 
is phenomena and such great, extensiye preparations 
for this wonderful work of uncloaking the great name of 
Spiritualism, You claim that when you clasped hands you 
experienced a tingling sensation as like an electrical current. 
Was this a spirit from heaven? No! Why when I was 
young, the young people of the town had parties and we 
played these magnetic games; w r e did not name it spirits, or 
startling occurrence of any supernatural power, but we tried 
to see who had the most electricity* in his human body and 
could control the minds, of the crowd. We had more knowl- 
edge than all of your so-called scientific men today, because 
we named the truth by its correct name — magnetism or 
electricity of the human body. We got so we could tell the 
stronger magnetic bodies and the weaker ones in the crowd. 
I got so I could draw an individual across the room just by 
thinking of that certain thought. We never considered we 
had supernatural power by exercising this power of one per- 
son over another. 

Gassner, a Roman Catholic priest in Swabia, took just 
such a crazy notion as you honored gentlemen and took up 



80 THEOREM 



the notion that the majority of diseases arose of demoniacal 
possessions, and could only be cured by exorcism. What 
was the difference between him and you? Not any; only 
you believe you are possessed by heavenly spirits, and he, by 
the spirits of the Evil One. Mr. Gassner used his electrical 
power over these people as one influencing a power of mag- 
netic healing over the nervous system of his patients. He 
believed he was divine and believed his power to be alto- 
gether supernatural and connected it with his belief. He 
understood the anatomy of the nervous system, partially, 
but as he realized his power, he also became blind as these 
others. He discovered one truth, that the nervous system 
is largely responsible for the spread of disorder and disease. 
Then he stopped; and declared he was divine. Then God 
stopped giving him any more knowledge. 

Mesmer discovered that stroking diseased parts of the 
body with electricity or magnets cured, and when he found 
out that Gassner effected cures without the use of the mag- 
net and that by rubbing with his hands he could effect 
cures without the magnet, this led Mesmer to discard the 
magnet and he also supposed he and the priest to be posses- 
sessed by some occult or divine force or power. 

"Are the Dead Alive?" Of all the meaningless jargon of 
the so-called "enthusiastic— if cold blooded," researchers in 
laboratory science! What a senseless question for mankind 
to ask, when the Kuler of mankind and the Positive end 
of all knowledge declares they are not here. God declares 
the dead know not anything. Ecc. 9-5. And that the dead 
men live with Him— not with us; and God declares many 
are dead though they live. That is what these poor be- 
nighted researchers are, and in their ignorance they claim 



THEOREM 81 



they are absolutely devoid of anything like superstition, and 
that they are only going to dissect the "wonderful" mani- 
festations of the poor magnetic woman or so called medium 
in the interest of "Pure Science." This is like so many ad- 
vertisements that declare with great headlines: "Free." It 
is a bargain, and if you want a fortune "free" send $10.00 
for information and money making schemes, "free." 

I should think Science would get tired of cloaking so 
many fakes. Astrology claims to be a science. Now will 
you kindly tell me why it is when you are born under a cer- 
tain zodiacal sign and it indicates much good fortune and 
enables you to achieve success, and in another part of the 
world another child is born the exact hour, day and month, 
he turns out to be a vagabond and is never successful and 
in the end a total failure? Queer science, is it not? 

Astrology is another so-called false science. It is th3 
vagary of horoscopical pretenders. They will tell you who 
you will marry, how to find a gold mine, for fifty cents, etc. 
If these people tell you any truth, such as your name, the 
name of your future husband, it will be by the process of 
reading your switchboard or your nerve force. The switch- 
board is the great nerve center of your magnetization power. 
It is wonderful; and all of your nerves are receiving mes- 
sages from different quarters and they send them to the 
false so-called wonderful oculist. You reveal to him your 
past, present and future and he receives it all by wireless 
telegraphy and charges you from fifty cents to $5.00 for his 
knowledge as he returns it to you through his nerve force, 
and you, in your foolish ignorance, think he has supernatur- 
al power and is a being above yourself, and that God has 
endowed him with greater power than you, and that they 



82 THEOREM 



have solved a great mystery for you that is hidden from all 
other mankind. Yes, he is simply using the Positive Mag- 
netization that God gave to him, and that is all. Some of 
these people brand themselves as Indian "Fakirs" and In- 
dian Jugglers. Yes, indeed, they are "fakers"— only use "e" 
in place of "i." 

An Indian lecturer once said: "I remember having 
seen a so-called "vogi"— a god— enter our back yard and he 
carried two shallow baskets, and under one he placed an 
empty snake skin and under the other a piece of bone. Then 
he lifted the baskets and one revealed a cobra, coiled, ready 
to strike; the other revealed a mongoos chained to a stake." 

Now, these highly educated professors, seeking these 
foolish jugglers or mediums, to discover so-called Spiritual- 
ism, will sneer at these foolish people who will travel across 
to India to investigate these so-called yogi's (gods) mysteri- 
ous, magnetic, human power that comes exactly from the 
same source as the power of Eusapia and Paladino seances. 
I have always been intensely proud to be called an Ameri- 
can, but never have we showed such foolish ignorance as we 
do today in declaring the bigness and knowledge of our sci- 
entific knowledge, and sneer at darkened India. Look in 
the glass and see not the reflected darkened India, but the 

TRUE REFLECTION OF DARKENED AMERICA. 

Even the Indian jugglers are ahead of us in scientific 
knowledge because they have sense enough to declare this 
power is not Spiritualism or Unseen Force, but just simply 
hypnotism or magnetic force exercised by one (medium). 
Only this poor man is deluded, also, with the added idea 
that this power is exercised by one of the invisible intelli- 



THEOREM 



gences with which the Indian people believe the air to be 
filled. Now how in all common sense can the air be rilled 
with people when just as soon as a person dies, that spirit 
enters a new born fly, dog, cat, etc. Queer logic again. This 
India man reveals the exact ignorance as the college profes- 
sors do. They declare in some places that this so-named 
mysterious force is like electricity tingling through their 
hands, and had to have an electro-magnetic needle connect- 
ed with the keyboard to bring results from the spirit world. 
This is another queer puzzle from the American side of the 
question. They make the exact mistake that their brother 
from India does. 

This Indian man declares we are ignorant to psychic 
matter and we declare he is. "Who is correct? And this 
man declares it is a science but little understood in America, 
and for that reason he urgeb that its practice by the ignor- 
ant or unprincipled be curbed. No, Mr. Jinaryadasa, let the 
good work go on. It is through you and other ignorant 
people we find God's— Our Truth— as the revelation of all 
Fakers. 

This wonderful "Jinaryadasa"— if any can pronounce 
that and his tongue is not tied or paralyzed — is ready to read 
his lecture on "Psyehism." As he claims heKNOW^s so much 
about Psychism and tirades the American people as ignor- 
ant and do not understand hypnotization, psychic matters 
and tells these noted American professors or learned men to 
not "monkey" with the "buzz saw." God declares this "buzz 
saw" is nothing but His magnetization given to human 
people and gives us knowledge and pow r er through Him to 
search out the simple truth of these human, unknown pow- 
ers or forces within our bodies. To tell the exact truth, this 



84 THEOREM 



India man has just as much knowledge about Psychism as 
these other so-claimed noted and educated men possess 
about Spiritualism. He declares the Sermon on the Mount 
to be perfect, but the man who delivered it was not Christ, 
the Son of God, but Christ— a man. What! This from a 
Theosophist who declares Christ was and is an imposter and 
to declare an imposter can deliver a sermon to be perfect 
without one plan is beyond being human! This is as strange 
as for these people to research for a spirit to communicate 
with and declare at the same time that they are not super- 
stitious, and at the same time are on the road to search for a 
spirit and they find, what? Nothing but magnetism and 
electricity in the medium to work out the deceitful devices 
of human nature to deceive themselves. 

Victorien Sardou, author of Fedora, Dante, etc., writes 
in the Delineator: "What I have seen, I know. What I 
have felt, I believe. J have felt these forces (spirits). They 
have acted through me, without any effort on my part and 
sometimes even against my will and inclination." 

Yes, indeed, so does he know that the wind blows; he 
feels it, he hears it, but he cannot see it. He truly sees the 
manifestations of the wind, but he does not know from 
whence it comes. The wind blows also without any effort 
on his part and always against his will. So do the mani- 
festations of electrical currents also do the same. He feels 
them, but cannot see them. God makes the wind blow and 
He also makes the electrical currents, and man cannot find 
either, nor can he see either one. How many people besi e 
Mr. Sardou have felt the electrical magnetization of these 
unseen forces, (spirits erroneously called) without any effort 
on their part ? That is not strange. The human body is 



THEOREM 85 



very finely made up of many electrical currents so minute 
that attempts to locate accurately in the cerebrum the cen- 
ter of the various mental (currents) faculties, the medical 
scientific men have been a failure. They do not yet know 
where thought began or where it goes. They cannot dis- 
cover mind or thought, but they feel it; they see the result 
of thought, but cannot always control it. These vibrations 
of thought or currents are so rapid that the science cannot 
understand them yet. Science will some day have this un- 
der partial control, and then they will believe in Christ and 
believe in His miracles. 

Beccaria demonstrated that air, adjacent to an electrified 
body (medium) gradually acquired the same electricity; that 
the electricity of the body is diminished by that of the air, 
and also that the air parts with its electricity very slowly. 
Does this not prove that Sardou felt the forces and also that 
this theory or principle proves without any doubt that the 
forces are positively not supernatural spirits, but are electri- 
fied air? 

These so-called Scientists claim that they have made 
progress. Have they ? 

Why do the medium's limbs become relaxed or rigid, 
the eyes closed, the face deathly pale, and the skin clammy 
and moist? Why so-called "goose flesh" sensations in her 
fingers? Why do these sensations keep increasing, at the 
same time she feels in the iuferior portion of the vertebrae 
column the flowing of a current which rapidly extends into 
her arm so far as her elbow? This condition, or trance, is 
hastened by the harmony or condition of the attendant cir- 
cles or seances, by the linking of the hands. How simple 
this is to explain. The numbness or "goose flesh" sensa- 



86 THEOREM 



tion is the positive currents resting or going to sleep. 
When Eusapia (medium) feels in the interior portion of the 
vertebrae column, the flowing of a current, this is the nega- 
tive current getting to work. Of course the coming on of 
the trance is hastened by the electrical currents in the at- 
tendant circles. This is not spirits and it is not a fake as 
many people try to believe, but of course there are many 
false mediums or electricians. These falsely named phe- 
nomenas or Spiritual Phenomena, are true but not defined 
the way these scientists try to find the truth. 

The Planchette is not moved by an invisible being or 
spirit; it is moved by our own electrical beings and currents 
of the human body. There is positively nothing supernat- 
ural or superhuman about it. It is only magnetization 
electrified. 

Mr. Edison with his Automatic Repeater, demonstrates 
by means of which messages could be sent from one curreut 
to another without the intervention of the operator. In the 
human body or currents the messages leap from one nerve 
cell to another, as these cells in a nerve center are not con- 
nected with one another. In case of hearing we know it 
is caused by electricity of the body and currents in the air. 
If Mr. Edison had only gone a little further in the open door 
of progression he would have proven my principles of facts. 
Telepathy also proves by its operations my theories to be 
positively the only truth about so called spirit manifestations. 
Every one of these theories are nothing but Telepathy and 
the future will positively prove these assertions. 

For example, when human voices can be carried many 

hundreds of miles. On September 9, 1848, General R 

was most dangerously wounded, and supposing himself dy- 



THEOREM 87 



ing, asked one of the men with him to take the ring off his 
finger and send it to his wife, who at that time was many 
miles away. His wife declares: "That on Sept. 9, 1848, 1 
was lying on my bed, between sleeping and waking, when I 
distinctly saw my husband being carried off the field and 
heard his voice saying, 'Take this ring off my finger and 
send it to my wife'." And these great scientific men de- 
clare these things have proven beyond a doubt that these 
were spiritual communications and clairvoyance, when in 
fact it is simply and truthfully called human telepathy. 
We can prove that we have speech, not carried over a wire 
yet heard at any distance. Remember, "heard at any 
distance." These currents of electricity which correspond 
exactly in power with the sound of the voice, are sent through 
the curreuts of air (to these two people at a distance) and re- 
converted into fac simile sounds at the other end. The 
voice will be perfect; the sound produced is weak. 

"A current may traverse a copper wire round the world 
while the clock ticks once." Is this strange? No. 

.Bottazzi, professor of general pathology at the Univer- 
sity of Naples, went to see Paiadino. He declares with his 
wonderful brains and eyes that he saw these wonderful 
spiritual manifestations. "I saw a hand dissolve — I saw T it 
with my own eyes— and it retreated as if into Paladino's 
body, describing a curve; some of these hands were of vari- 
ous sizes, some gigantic in dimension, some normal." Bott- 
azzi calls these hands '-The apparitions or materializations." 
He adds, "I tr;ed to seize them but I was always too late; 
these hands dissolved and I found the space vacant." 

Can he touch air? Can he touch electrical currents? 
Mo! Can he receive knowledge in this way? Never! 



88 THEOREM 



Of another seance Mr. Galeotti, another great scientist, 
who happened to be holding the medium's (Eusapia's) right 
hand, suddenly cried: "I see two left arms identical in ap- 
pearance. One is on the little table and it is that which Mrs. 
Bottazzi touches. The arm seems to come out of the 
medium's shoulder, to approach and touch Mrs. JBottazzi, 
and then return and melt into the medium's body again. 
This is not hallucination. I am awake." 

Yes, he is awake, and it is no hallucination. But a man 
who professes to be a college man and calls this electrical 
manifestation right before his own eyes and can not tell 
the truth, but falsely calls it spirit manifestations, seems too 
foolish to believe; that a man holding the position he does 
can not understand God's simple truths. But God declares, 
"having ears, they can not hear; having eyes they can not 
see." This is true in their case. 

This is the true explanation of these manifestations. 
Electricity appears only on the surface of conditions. On 
these surfaces it occupies a thickness not appreciable. When 
a conductor is caused to approach a magnetized body, the 
density of the electricity is found to be greater on the side 
which is expo-ed to conductor. (Mrs. Bottazzi was the con- 
ductor at this manifestation). Electricity concentrates it- 
self on points and projections standing out from the medi- 
um's body. The intensity of this power is in proportion to 
the contrivance and power of the medium so far as trans- 
mission, and if her seance is strong, she acts more upon 
them, and you may call this "electrical behavior" of the 
medium upon the seance with which she is associated. She 
is an electro positive, and she generates currents by in- 



THEOREM 89 



duction in the currents around and within her own body. 
This also strengthens her and attracts her subjects. 

Professor T. W. Myers declared "That Spiritualism 
proves survival, pure and simple, the persistence of the 
spirir,'s life as a structural law of the universe. 2. They 
prove that between the spiritual and the material world an 
avenue of communication does in fact exist. 3. They prove 
that the surviving spirit retains, at least in some measure, 
the memories and loves of earth. 4. There exists in us a sub- 
limical self; that is to say, a certain part of our being, con- 
scious and intelligent, that does not enter into our waking 
intelligence. 

5. This sublimical self exerts a direct knowledge or 
power over other minds, as telepathy, or direct knowledge 
of the future, and direct knowledge of past events. 

This sublimical — we may say superhuman — knowledge 
or faculty may be brought to our ordinary consciousness by 
means of sensory or motor automatism. 

6. Some of these are the minds of living persons; but 
some are spirits from the other world. Mr. Myers also adds 
that the records of Spiritualism to his mind has actually 
been proven. In the first place that is false. He has 
proved nothing. He has rambled and rambled on and on 
and finished and what has he proven? Nothing. 

1. He has not proven that the spirit is a law of the uni- 
verse. He has proven that the spirit is nothing but magnet- 
ization due to electrical currents in the air and in our 
bodies. 2. This magnetization of different electrical bodies 
proves that the magnetic body of a human person and God's 
material world is a positive avenue for communications be- 



90 THEOREM 



tween different bodies. 3. This magnetization of reading 
and remembering any thought of a person is the amount of 
electrical currents the medium draws from that person. 
4. That there exists in us a sublimical self (called nega- 
tive currents) and does not enter into our waking intelli- 
gence. 5. That these negative currents have a direct 
knowledge of power over a person, mind or electrical cur- 
rents, has been positively proven by my own experience, and 
can tell your past, present and future. They draw your 
magnetization by wireless telepathy, and then give it back 
to you and you pay the medium for information that your 
electric wires have told her of your history. 

6. This sublimical self is not superhuman. It is nega- 
tive magnetization. One great scientist declares we must 
"admit no unverified statement." Where are the "verified 
statements?" The source of the alleged messages in the 
other world, are not messages only from one current from 
one body attracted to another, receiving and giving com- 
munications. 

"A magnet can be made to produce a current, and a 
current will make a magnet." 

These wonderful scientists declare it a great phenomena 
that to suggest to a man that he is burned, "but not actu- 
ally, by thinking, raise a blister on the spot indicated." 
That is nothing strange. The currents in our bodies are the 
thoughts sent to the brain and if we continually train these 
currents to say these sayings, and as they feed the blood and 
body and at last make the whole temple, why should we not 
make a blister if we choose? Very simple. Can not find 
any spirit in this. Nothing bewildering about this case. 



THEOREM 91 



A class of these Scientists name one of their manifest- 
ations "Heat Phenomena." When in a trance the medium 
will go to the fire and take out large red hot coals, and carry 
them about in his hands, put them inside of his clothing. 

Why is this wonderful ? We all know when we go to 
bed with great pain, if we can go to sleep with that pain, we 
have no pain in our sleep. When the negatives are at work 
they do not sense pain as the positives do. Every one will 
agree with me on this question. The conductor is not good. 
It is the disorderly and disturbed moments of molecules 
that constitutes what we call heat. Hence the conclusion 
of science that heat and certain currents are very nearly 
akin, the only difference being the rate of vibration of 
the molecules. W 7 hen a medium is in a trance they have 
the same amount of heat as contained in the hot coal, and 
contain currents nearly alike to the coal. Then when he 
comes out of the trance the rate vibration of the posi- 
tives is increased and he would get burned if he touched the 
red hot coal, because the currents are unequal. 

The same currents that feed the brain when we are 
awake are not the same that feed the brain when asleep. 

Lord, teach us why thou dost conceal, and say 
Thy knowledge blasted, hasten to decay. 
Father, teach us the paths wherein we go astray; 
Reveal the secret errors of our way; 
Reform, correct, subdue this offending mind- 
Always stubborn, impotent, foolish, blind. 



MAY 14 1909 






Deacidified using the Bookkeeper process. 
Neutralizing agent: Magnesium Ox.de 
Treatment Date: Nov. 2004 

PreservationTechnologies 

A WORLD LEADER IN PAPER PRESERVATION 

1 1 1 Thomson Park Drive 
Cranberry Township, PA 16066 
(724) 779-21 1 1 



